World Photography Day: Vintage cameras that will make you want to click!
[caption id=“attachment_1671225” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] On World Photography Day, an exhibition titled ‘A Vintage Camera Collection’, based on one of the rarest antique cameras is currently underway at IGNCA, New Delhi. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1671227” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] For the first time in two decades, the exhibition displayed the original works of Henri Cartier Bresson, exclusively sourced from IGNCA archives. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_1671229” align=“alignleft” width=“940”] The history of World Photography day originates from the invention of the ‘Daguerreotype’, a photographic processes developed by Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre on January 9, 1839.
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On World Photography Day, an exhibition titled ‘A Vintage Camera Collection’, based on one of the rarest antique cameras is currently underway at IGNCA, New Delhi. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost
For the first time in two decades, the exhibition displayed the original works of Henri Cartier Bresson, exclusively sourced from IGNCA archives. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost
The history of World Photography day originates from the invention of the 'Daguerreotype', a photographic processes developed by Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre on January 9, 1839. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost
The photos displayed were taken during the period of 1850 and 1910 by various photographers who travelled within the country and abroad with their huge cameras to capture the frames. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost
Among the key highlights at the exhibition was Dilish Parikh, a Guiness Book record holder who showcased his collection of vintage cameras for the first time in India. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost
Apart from cameras the exhibition also has collection of old photographs including the first ever of Taj Mahal, as well as maps of South Asian countries from a time period between the 14th and 19th centuries. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost