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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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Topic: photography

History can be written & rewritten. Photos can’t be taken again – Raghu Rai

The way Modi is everywhere now, back then Indira Gandhi was on every cover page, said photographer Raghu Rai at a recent event in Delhi.

Low-light photography brings Ajanta murals to life for the first time in Delhi

Art historian Benoy Behl unveiled 30 years of his work at Delhi’s IIC, enthralling visitors with his low-light images and digital restorations of Buddhist cave paintings, Chola-era murals.

Del Tufo & Co – India’s earliest photo studio with branches from Madras to Colombo

Photographs produced by the studio were shown at the 2015 exhibition, Imaging the Isle Across, and shown at the National Museum, New Delhi.

10 Dalit communities in black & white photographs—Delhi exhibition has no room for politics

Asha Thadani's photographs of Dalit communities are part of an exhibition titled ‘Broken’ at Delhi's India Habitat Centre. Those photographed are united in their 'shared trauma'.

Lala Deen Dayal—celebrated photographer who captured the who’s who of 19th-century India

Lala Deen Dayal brought to photography what Raja Ravi Varma brought to paintings.

ATW Penn–British photographer who captured 19th-century South India in his portraits

ATW Penn lived and worked far from the urban centres of colonial rule and rarely engaged with surveyors or institutions.

1948 war to Kennedy visit, Delhi’s Mahatta & Co is still capturing Indian history in photos

From Gandhi's prayer meets to Dalai Lama's flight to India—The Mahatta family has been at the ringside of India's headline events for almost a century.

Annapurna Dutta, one of the first female photographers, clicked Sarojini Naidu, Muslim elites

It was uncommon for women of the era to work outside. So, Dutta visited wealthy Indian families for commissioned portraits and developed the photographs herself at home.

Khasi to Apatani—Women photographers in Northeast are coming together, turning the lens

'Photography can be lonely,' so a new women's collective called Aama is taking shape.

Ansspvt – a 20-year-old photographer based in Boston, MA

Ansspvt's attention to detail in his photographs results from his passion for the medium. He is committed to creating work that will serve him well in the future.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.