A photographer is a person who
creates photographs, a person who takes photographs, especially one who
practices photography professionally. A photographer's work may be limited to
the existent shooting of the camera. A photograph therefore, can be the work of
a single person or of a team.
Since the 18th century, events and
landscapes in India had been in a perceptive manner observed and documented by
both Indian and European artists in paintings, drawings, aquatints and
lithographs. During the 19th century, India was at the cutting edge of
photographic development. Many of Photographic exhibitions included a wide
range of attractive images, many of them have never been seen before in public.
With the immense growth of
technology, the immense growth in the arena of fashion photography, nature photography,
street photography, wedding photography etc.,
Indian Photographers have made a remarkable achievement in the field of
photography.
In the recent era, the photographers
can be categorized as: Abstract photographer, Advertising photographer, Aerial
photographer, Architectural photographer, Art photographer, Digital
photography, Documentary photographer, Ethnographic photographer, Fashion
photographer, Food photographer, Industrial photographer, Interiors
photographer, Landscape photographer, Portraitist, Scientific/technical
photographer, Sports photographer, Street photographer, Night photographer,
Astrophotography, Black and White photographer, Pinhole photographer, Travel
photographer, Urban photographer, War photographer etc.
Homai Vyarawalla - Homai started freelancing for the
Illustrated Weekly of India and its editor Stanley Jepson used to give her
weekly assignments. In the early days for a fragile woman like Homai taking
photographs in field situations was not easy. Her large-format Speed Graphic
camera had a composite wood, steel and aluminum chassis, which used to weigh
more than six pounds.To
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