ICE boy.... Kolkata wakes up on a winter morning. Empty streets - TopicsExpress



          

ICE boy.... Kolkata wakes up on a winter morning. Empty streets gradually fill up with activity. The sun is still not visible. A lonely boy drags two blocks of ice on a trolley. S N banerjee Road in central Kolkata. Can you see the old shop of renowned photo developers and agency, Bourne and Shepherd in other side of the road? The firm of Bourne and Shepherd, which survives to this day in Calcutta under Indian ownership, is one of the oldest established photographic businesses in the world. Samuel Bourne was the more famous of the two original partners, and although the firms early fame rested securely upon his photographic skill and commercial acumen, Charles Shepherd was himself a talented photographer and a number of other figures involved with the firm are names important in the history of the medium in the Indian subcontinent. Unfortunately the history of the shifting commercial alliances and partnerships of the 1860s has been by no means fully clarified.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:12:56 +0000

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