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Last Name Bourne

Given Name Samuel

alt. Names S. B. ;

Marriage in 1867 in England

Children

Year born 1834 in Arbour Farm, Mucklestone, Shropshire

Year died 1912

Place of death Nottingham, England

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education by clergyman near Fairburn, he secured a job with Moore & Robinson's Bank, Nottingham in 1855. His amateur photographic activities also started then

Country of Activity India

Worked for William A. Marschall: A Phrenologist among the Todas or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India (London 1873) ;

Patronage Nottingham Photographic Society Exhibition

Collaborators photographer -> Charles Shepherd, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_%26_Shepherd on their joint photostudio in Simla 1864- & also in Calcutta 1868- ;

Techniques anthropological & ethnographic photography, also portrait, landscape & genre photography, esp. collotype

Sample(s) http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0115%2FY3022C-E ; www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp08090&role=art

Archival sources Cambridge University Library,[2] the National Portrait Gallery, London,[4] the National Geographic Society's Image Collection, Smithsonian Institution

Published sources Ann Thomas: Beauty of Another Order. Photography in Science (Ottawa 1997: 129) ; Arthur Ollman: S. B.-Images of India (Carmel 1983) ; Katharina Weiler: Picturesque Authenticity in Early Archaeol.Photogr. in Brit. India, in: Archaeologizing Heritage 2013: 39-59 ; R. Lenman (ed.): Oxford Companion to Photography (2005) ; Wilder 2009: 89-91; Theye 1989: 27, 65, 273, 294-8, 324;

other S. B. was born at a farm in England, stayed in India 1863-70, upon return settled back in Nottingham, where he founded a cotton-doubling business.

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