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India
Famine victims, Madras

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Photographer: Willoughby Wallace Hooper (1837-1912). Famine victims, Madras. 1876-1878. 5 albumen prints. Each 10 x 15,5 cm. Each with photographer's monogram and number in lower left corner in the negative.

A British army officer stationed in India, Willoughby Wallace Hooper also contributed photographs to the colonial survey The People of India (1868-75). His famine photographs are a powerful yet ethically complex record of the Great Famine of 1876-78, that affected large areas of southern and central India and caused more than 5,5 million deaths.