{"id":2346,"date":"2020-06-26T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photomuse.in\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:42:51","slug":"seth-banya-1890-gelatin-silver-print-195x130-mm-unknown-photographer-photomuse-collection-2018-gift-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/26\/seth-banya-1890-gelatin-silver-print-195x130-mm-unknown-photographer-photomuse-collection-2018-gift-of-dr-unni-krishnan-pulikkal-source-herbert-ascherman-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth (Banya), 1890, Gelatin Silver Print, 195&#215;130 mm, Unknown Photographer, PhotoMuse Collection, 2018, Gift of Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal, Source &#8211; Herbert Ascherman Collection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banya is an occupational community of merchants, bankers, money-lenders, dealers in grains or in spices, and in modern times numerous commercial enterprises. The term is used in a wider sense in Bengal than it is elsewhere in India.<\/p>\n<p>The gelatin silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers. A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto a support such as glass, flexible plastic or film, baryta paper, or resin-coated paper. These light-sensitive materials are stable under normal keeping conditions and are able to be exposed and processed even many years after their manufacture. This is in contrast to the collodion wet-plate process dominant from the 1850s\u20131880s, which had to be exposed and developed immediately after coating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banya is an occupational community of merchants, bankers, money-lenders, dealers in grains or in spices, and in modern times numerous commercial enterprises. The term is used in a wider sense in Bengal than it is elsewhere in India. The gelatin silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photomuse.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}