Tag Archives: India

“Drowning World”

Posted on September 17, 2019 by Christopher George

Gideon Mendel, Chinta and Samundri Davi, Salempur village near Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, from the “Drowning World” series, August 2007 (2013.32.1) Gideon Mendel, Hakam Zadi, Manghal Khan, Brohi village, Sind province, Pakistan, from the “Drowning World” series, September 2010, (2013.87.5) Gideon … Continue reading →

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Mahatma Gandhi, photographs by Margaret Bourke-White: “To believe in non-violence and truth”

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Christopher George

Margaret Bourke-White, Gandhi Colony: Gandhi’s morning walk with close members of the Ashram and members of his family, 1946 (1909.2005) Margaret Bourke-White, Gandhi Colony: Gandhi’s morning walk with close members of the Ashram and members of his family. (verso), 1946 … Continue reading →

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Mahatma Gandhi

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Christopher George

Münchner Illustrierte Presse, May 18, 1930, (2007.87.56) Vu, March 11, 1931, (2011.7.30) Vu, “Towards Peace,” September 16, 1931 (2011.7.53) Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), Gandhi Colony: Gandhi’s morning walk with close members of the Ashram and members of his family. It is … Continue reading →

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Water is Work

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Christopher George

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), [Worker soaking silk skeins in boiled water to free it of gum, Madison Silk Company in Barnert Mills, Paterson, New Jersey], March 1937, (856.1975) Henry Ries (1917-2004), Restoration of Ancient Books, September 1948 (354.1990) Henri Cartier-Bresson … Continue reading →

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Seeing is Believing: Leon Levinstein in India and Nepal, Photographers and Photographs

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Christopher George

Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), [Outdoor portrait studio, India], ca. 1978 (2012.114.49) Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), [Man in front of photographer’s backdrop, India], ca. 1978 (2012.114.22) Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), [Street photography], ca. 1978 (158.1999) Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), [Untitled], ca. 1978 (160.1999) Leon Levinstein … Continue reading →

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Leon Levinstein: The Indiscriminate Eye

Posted on April 29, 2014 by fansinaflashbulb

When learning about the work of a new photographer, more often than not I have some piece of biography that helps me place the photographs in context. In the case of Leon Levinstein, I got to know him through working … Continue reading →

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Seen on the Street

Posted on April 24, 2013 by mahulme

Leon Levinstein, [Women, India], ca. 1979 (2008.94.5) Leon Levinstein, [Man on bicycle] (2010.113.10) Leon Levinstein, St. Marks Place, 1968 (2011.53.5) Leon Levinstein, Times Square, 1985 (2011.53.33) Street photographer Leon Levinstein (American, 1910-1988) came to New York in the 1940s and … Continue reading →

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Lala Deen Dayal: “Bold Warrior of Photography”

Posted on August 21, 2012 by annalinehan

Lala Deen Dayal, Old Mosque in Laifabad, ca. 1880s (126.1980) Enumeration of achievements of pioneering Indian photographer Lala Deen Dayal (a leading court photographer in the Princely states of India in the late nineteenth century, whose patrons included the Maharaja … Continue reading →

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Tryst with Destiny

Posted on August 15, 2010 by stuart macmillan

Lisa Larsen, Jawaharlal Nehru, 1955 August 15 is India’s Independence Day, celebrating the anniversary of the end of British rule and India’s subsequent sovereignty. At midnight on August 14-15, 1947, the first Prime Minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, made … Continue reading →

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Earthday 2010

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Christopher George

Unidentified Photographer, [Unidentified Woman Sitting on Fallen Tree in Forest], ca. 1909 Dan Weiner, Sunbathers, Czechoslovakia, 1957 Laura McPhee, Banyan Tree and 16th Century Terracotta Temple, Attpur, West Bengal, India, 1988 Eugène Atget, Trianon, 1910-14 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Giant oak tree … Continue reading →

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