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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > John Murray

Names:
Other: Dr. John Murray 
Dates:  1809 - 1898
Born:  Great Britain
Active:  India
Gender:  Male
 
  
Architectural and landscape views of the vicinity of Agra in India using waxed paper negatives. He traveled widely in India and is probably the most important photographer of nineteenth century India.

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John Murray
Double-portrait of Dr. John Murray and Loveday Marian Murray, Simla 
1842
 
  
Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
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Internet biographies

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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.463 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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