Clark Worswick
author
Clark Worswick is an American photographic historian, collector, and curator. Born in Berkeley, California, he attended Visva Bharati University in West Bengal, India, before traveling extensively between India and Europe to collect and photograph 19th-century imagery. He has served as the founding curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where he curated significant collections of non-Western photographs. Worswick is recognized for his scholarly work on Indian, Chinese, and Japanese classical photography, often identifying non-European artists within these historical contexts. His publications have received critical acclaim from major outlets including The New York Times and Time Magazine.[1,2,3]
- 19th-century photography
- Indian history
- Chinese photography
- Japanese photography
Books
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JAPAN. PHOTOGRAPHS 1854-1905€25.00
Works by Clark Worswick
- 1979 JAPAN. PHOTOGRAPHS 1854-1905 Edited and with a historical text by Clark Worswick; introduction by Jan Morris.
- 1976 The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1865-1911 Introduction by Earl Mountbatten.
- Imperial China: Photographs, 1850-1912
- 2016 ArtMachine: A Reinvention of Photography, 1959-1999
Exhibitions
- 2018 The Great Within: Photographs of India and the British Raj in the 19th Century