The Photographic Intervention

Samuel Bourne, Photograph Album, circa 1870. English amateur photographer Samuel Bourne (1834-1912) was one of the first men to popularize photographic images of India. Bourne began his career in India in 1863 and spent the next seven years traveling through the subcontinent on photographic expeditions. Together with Charles Shepherd he established the firm of Howard, Bourne, and Shepherd, which ultimately became the most successful photographic studio in India. He left India in 1870, but the firm he established continues to operate to this day.