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The Most Famous

PHOTOGRAPHERS from India

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Photographers. The pantheon dataset contains 105 Photographers, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 16th most number of Photographers behind Mexico and Cuba.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Photographers of all time. This list of famous Indian Photographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)

With an HPI of 61.28, Julia Margaret Cameron is the most famous Indian Photographer.  Her biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.

Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorians and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature. She was born in Calcutta, and after establishing herself among the Anglo-Indian upper-class, she moved to London where she made connections with the cultural elite. She then formed her own literary salon in the seaside village of Freshwater, Isle of Wight. Cameron took up photography at the age of 48, after her daughter gave her a camera as a present. She quickly produced a large body of portraits, and created allegorical images inspired by tableaux vivants, theatre, 15th-century Italian painters, and contemporary artists. She gathered much of her work in albums, including The Norman Album. She took around 900 photographs over a 12-year period. Cameron's work was contentious in her own time. Critics derided her softly focused and unrefined images, and considered her illustrative photographs amateurish and hammy. However, her portraits of artists and scientists such as Henry Taylor, Charles Darwin, and Sir John Herschel have been consistently praised, both in her own life and since. Her images have been described as "extraordinarily powerful" and "wholly original", and she has been credited with producing the first close-ups in the medium.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as photographers born between 1815 and 1815. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased photographers include Julia Margaret Cameron.

Deceased Photographers

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