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cyclone and tidal bore that blew over the southern region of Bangladesh in November
1970 created worldwide appeal. Photographs of the damage wreaked by the tornado
at Demra in the same year were also heart-rending.
3.6 Publications, Write-ups and Albums on Photography
The number of write-ups and publications related to photography during the period
1947-1971 is very little. There were only a very few books on photography written in
Bengali. M. A. Beg played an important and leading role in writing on photography in
this country. In 1956, a time when he held a position at PANSDOC, his writings on
photography began to be published in the paper Diganta, of Karachi. Later Morning
News, Dainik Ittefaq, Dainik Bangla of Dhaka; Photography Charcha published from
Kolkata, B. P. S News Letter and Masik Photography magazines published
approximately three hundred articles written by him, on various topics such as, history
of photography and matters of technical and artistic interests. In around 1960, the
articles on photography written by M. Atikur Rahman were also published in various
periodicals. In 1964, the first book of Bangladesh on photography, edited by Golam fig. 10.7 Dhaka 1969:
Kashem Dady, was published under the title Camera. In 1968 M. A. Beg went on a this inspired child at the
front of a procession
British Government scholarship to Britain’s famous Hartfield College of Technology, was shot by the police a
for higher studies on reprography. A write-up by him titled Report on Reprography, short while after the
based on his training, was published from London in 1968. photograph was taken,
Among the albums published in Bangladesh, the album Rare Photographs of Eastern photograph Rashid
Bengal (1880-1940), collected and edited by Waqar Khan contains the most important Talukder,
and rarest photographs. This rare album was published from Dhaka in 2003, at the © Rashid Talukder
initiative of Standard Chartered Bank to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of world photography. This 120-page album
contains various photographs from the then East Bengal from
1880 to 1940. The album contains the names of photographs
and the dates of when they were taken. It includes
photographs taken by German photographer Fritz Kapp,
Johnston and Hoffman of Kolkata, Westfield and Coy; and,
Bourne and Shepherd. Alokchitrey Shekaler Dhaka is another
important album of rare photographs. This 132-page album
contains 119 photographs. This album includes photographs
starting from the portrait of Khwaja Alimullah taken in 1850
to palaces associated with the Nawab family of Dhaka,
buildings, monuments, Shahbag, Dilkhusha, the residence of
the Nawabs, the banks of the river Buriganga, the outskirts of
Dhaka, sports and entertainment, vehicles, the army, the
bridge over Dulai Khal and other photographs. In 1988,
Bangla Academy published Dhaka 1971, a collection of
photographs on the War of Liberation. This collection
includes photos starting from the cyclone on November 12,