1864
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Bridge of Shops, Srinagar, Kashmir is a 1864 by Samuel Bourne, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This photo shows a wooden bridge in Kashmir packed with small wooden huts. The huts crowd the bridge in two uneven rows, some leaning a little. Bourne took this in 1864 while traveling India with a camera instead of a bank ledger. He shot it on glass plates with long exposures, so people vanish into blurs. Only the still huts and water stay sharp, making the scene feel both busy and quiet. He wanted to sell these images back in England. See this in person at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Taking up photography in his teens, Samuel Bourne soon achieved recognition for both his superb technical skills and keen aesthetic talents. When he sailed to India in late 1862, he left a banking career to pursue his passion for photography . He hoped to use his camera throughout the country and to write about his experiences for the British Journal of Photography. This charming photograph of a bridge filled with small huts demonstrates his creative ability to organize the random environment. His lively use of light and shade clearly defines the elements of architecture and landscape. The…
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Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870.
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