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Burmah: A Photographic Journey, 1855-1925 by Noel F. Singer (Hardcover, 1993)

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In 1885 the British annexed the ancient, picturesque and exotic kingdom of Burma, which soon attracted travel writers and artists. By 1910 over 100 accounts of the golden land had been published in English. Photographers also visited the country, the earliest in 1855, and many set up popular studios in Rangoon and Mandalay, producing not only formal portraits but also landscape studies and picture postcards of outstanding artistic quality. Disappearing monastery architecture and the palace at Mandalay (since destroyed), forgotten craftsmanship, early river and road transport, the social scene, both European and Burmese, and Buddhist activities were all chronicled in detail by these early photographers. The collection in this book took 25 years to amass. The introduction narrates the development of photography in Burma and describes typical journeys of a late-Victorian or Edwardian visitor, encountering ancient capitals, theatres, festivals and ethnic groups. The second part of the book contains the photographs and an amusing selection of early hand-tinted postcards, reproduced in colour. A list of early photographers and postcard publishers is included. The book is both an historic record of an exotic land and a revealing insight into the complicated nature of Burmese society at the time. Noel Singer, a painter and a native of the country who has done much to revive and maintain its traditions in the visual arts, is the author of Burmese Puppets .