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"description": "The double-storied exterior base of one of the largest temples constructed and still standing on the Indian subcontinent is articulated with niches containing images of Hindu gods. Within these walls is an inner sanctum containing a monolithic linga (the phallic emblem marking the sacred presence of the god Shiva).
Tripe used waxed paper instead of glass negatives, possibly because he was concerned about breakage and weight. When printing the photograph, he laid the negative on a paper treated with a light-sensitive emulsion of sodium chloride (table salt) and silver nitrate and exposed it to light, to create a \u201csalt print.\u201d",
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"citation": "Dewan, Janet, and Linnaeus Tripe. The Photographs of Linnaeus Tripe: A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2003.",
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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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"West and South Sides of the Vimana Walls, Great Temple, Thanjavur",
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