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"title": "Avenue of the Banian Trees, Seringham, India",
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"title": "Travel Photography: Early Images of India",
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"description": "A rare, beautiful example of Linnaeus Tripe concentrating simply on the landscape, this carefully composed image depicts a picturesque avenue of banyan trees, dense with foliage. Nearly 1,000 miles of road in the Salem District of India were lined by these trees, providing travelers with shade and shelter from the country's intense climate. The inherent characteristics of Tripe's paper negative\u2014with its broad effects of light and shade and lack of crisp details\u2014magnifies the impressionistic appearance of a scene filled with filtered sunlight. The abstract patterns of light and shadow lead the viewer's eyes down the centrally positioned road and through the compelling composition.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"biography": "Captain Linnaeus Tripe British, 1822-1902\r\n\r\nBorn in Davenport, Linnaeus Tripe was an officer in the 12th Regiment Native Infantry at Bangalore who learned photography while on furlough in England between 1851-54. In 1855 he was appointed photographer to a British mission in Burma, where he produced more than 120 views subsequently published by the Madras Photographic Society in Bangalore (1857). For four years, beginning in 1856, he was government photographer to the Madras presidency. Six volumes with more than 100 images of various cities in Madras (now Tamil Nadu) were later published.\r\n\tLike other expeditionary photographers, Tripe documented the landscape, culture, and architecture he encountered. His particular views are valued not only for their factual content, but also for Tripe's soft, almost romantic interpretation of his subjects. Rising through the military ranks during his career, Tripe retired to England as an honorary major general in 1875. He continued to photograph for his own pleasure. T.W.F.",
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