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Mastering the Lens Before & After Cartier-Bresson in Pondicherry


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This publication emanates from an exhibition by the same title, displayed for the first time at the Alliance Francaise de Delhi. It is an attempt to trace the development of photography and the other allied visual arts in Pondicherry spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn exclusively from The Alkazi Collection of Photography, at the core of this initiative is the unpublished album by renowned photographer Henri CartierBresson, co-founder of Magnum Photos, who visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in April 1950. He took the last pictures of Sri Aurobindo Ghose in the company of his spiritual companion, 'the Mother'. In addition, he meticulously penned his observations almost daily, creating a meta-text around the images, which presents a biographical and anecdotal supplement for his photographic endeavour. The visual material is further enhanced by some extraordinary images of Indian photographers from the same period such as Tara Jauhar and Venkatesh Shirodkar at Aurobindo Ashram, published here for the first time. In this catalogue a conscious effort has been made to bring out a non-linear, yet credible history of how Pondicherry has been witness to the development of a unique visual trajectory. The use of images as 'evidence' and 'document' create a subtle interplay between cultural context and artistic intent, a conceptual linking of mannerisms and tropes those of landscape, architectural and portrait photography.

Table of Contents:
Renewing Ties: Linking India & France through the Art of Photography; The Enduring Image; Silent as an Apparition: A Hidden Legacy of Photography; Mastering the Lens: Before & After CartierBresson in Pondicherry; Diary Entries of CartierBresson During His Travel to Pondicherry in April 1950; Brief Note on Sri Aurobindo Ashram & Photography; Biography of Photographers; About Henri CartierBresson Foundation.

About the Author :
Rahaab Allana is Curator of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi. He completed his MA in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2001. He has worked as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, and is the author of Inherited Spaces Inhabited Places (2005), a volume on World Heritage Sites, published by the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. Pramod Kumar K G is Associate Director at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi. Founder Director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing at Jaipur, he was Director of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation in 2005-06, and of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival and the first Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006. Deepak Bharathan is Research Scholar at The Alkazi Collection of Photography. He was earlier Curator at the H.H. Maharaja Sir Jiwajirao Scindia Museum, Gwalior.


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  • ISBN-13: 9788189995737
  • Publisher: Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 8189995731
  • Publisher Date: /12/2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 84


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