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Tripe, Linnaeus
(b Devonport, 1822; d Devonport, 1902). English photographer. He was an enthusiastic photographer while stationed with the army in India from 1839 to 1875. In the 1850s he initiated and undertook numerous surveys of sites of historical and ethnographical interest: the best-known include commissions for the British East India Company (1855) and the Madras Presidency (1856). The latter resulted in the publication of six volumes entitled Photographic Views of Indian Scenery: Madura, Tanjore and Trivady, Ryakotta, Seringham, Poodoocottah and Trichinopoly. Using the calotype process, he enhanced his chosen architectural subject-matter with a dramatic use of available light and a subtly lyrical quality that transcended photography’s hitherto purely factual function.
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