Photographs
India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
Photograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- c. 1890–1910
- Dimensions summary
- Paper: 20.6 × 26.2 cm
- Photo process
- Other
- Studio or series
- Photoglob Co.
- Place of origin
- India
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr and Mrs Harold Wren, 2019
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
This busy street corner gives us a glimpse into everyday life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century India. Unlike most of the mid-19th century genre photographs of colonial India, which were posed or staged, here people go about their business, unaware that they are being photographed. The color scene was made using a black-and-white negative by Dr. Kurt Boeck, a German actor and mountain climber who became a travel writer and lecturer specializing in Asia.
Materials and technique
Photochrom
Signature and marks
Imprinted in gold type on recto: “20005.P.Z-CALCUTTA. UPPER CHITPORE ROAD.”
