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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Hurrichund Chintamon

Names:
Other: Harishchandra Chintaman 
Active:  India
 
  
One of the earliest photographic studios in Bombay (Mumbai), India. His photographs were included in The People of India (London: Indian Museum, 1868-75).

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Hurrichund Chintamon
Self portrait as a painter in Bombay 
1860 (ca)
 
  
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John Falconer, British Library 
A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia

 
Commercial, India
Attended the photography class at the Elphinstone Institution under the tuition of W.H.S. Crawford (qv), in 1855, and was awarded the first prize of Rs.50 in the government-sponsored competition held at the end of that year. Showed his photographs to the Bombay Photographic Society, 1856. Also contributed photographs to the Archaeological Survey of India. Photographs of castes and tribes sent to the Paris Exhibition of 1867.
 
Girgaum, Bombay, 1857; Rampart Row, Bombay, 1858-81.
Hurrichund Chintamon and Co., Rampart Row, Bombay, 1857, 1860-6 (Bombay Times Calendar and Almanac).
Hurrichund Chintamon, photographer, Meadow Street, Bombay, 1867-81 (The Times of India Calendar and Directory).
Hurrichund Chintamond and Co., Photographer, Rampart Road, Bombay, 1866 (Bombay Almanack)
Hurrichund Chintamon, photographer, Medow Street, Bombay, 1875-77 (Maclean’s Guide to Bombay). [Maclean’s Guide to Bombay for 1878 not seen.]
Hurrichund Chintamon, photographer, Meadow Street and Girgaum Road, Bombay, 1879 (Maclean’s Guide to Bombay). 
  
 
  

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