Samuel Bourne’s photographs display a compositional elegance which appealed to Victorian notions of the ‘picturesque’; strategically framed landscapes of rugged mountain scenery, forests, rivers, lakes and rural dwellings. Bourne chose his routes with care, planning his itineraries based on the latest maps, the locations of renowned geological features, glaciers, high passes, the sources of major… Continue reading Views of India II
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Views of India I
One of the most important British expeditionary photographers, Samuel Bourne was propelled by his great desire to travel to lovely, remote locations and to record images of what he considered picturesque. From 1863 to 1869, he worked widely in India, making three major expeditions to the Himalayas. He balanced the ordered, constructed architectural forms with… Continue reading Views of India I
The First Lady’s Trip to India!
Jacqueline Kennedy took a goodwill tour of India in 1962. While the media gave widespread coverage on her fashion style, she functioned as an informal diplomat and developed her interest in arts and architecture, returning to India in later years to co-produce a book on Indian artwork. Accompanied by her sister Lee Radziwill, and as guest of John Kenneth… Continue reading The First Lady’s Trip to India!
Views in India!
George Francis White (1808–1898) was a colonel in the British Army who served in the British Raj. He was also an amateur artist and while stationed in India produced a book of engravings and sketches called, Views in India, Chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains.
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Photographs of India, taken by Lala Deen Dayal (1844 – 1905) in the 1880s, from the Curzon Collection. Lord Curzon served as Viceroy of India between 1899 and 1905. These photographs are from an album documenting places proposed to be visited by Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Curzon, during their viceregal tour of autumn 1902.
A poem-in-marble, The Taj!
Who could ever think that an eternal love leading to the saga of infinite bondage can evolve out of a desert like land and would blossom to be the reason to gift our world a poem-in-marble, The Taj! No image of The Taj, neither on canvass nor on celluloid, can adequately express its conceptual imaginary… Continue reading A poem-in-marble, The Taj!
Auroville – The City of Universal Culture!
Auroville, sometimes referred to as “The City of Dawn” is conceived for 50,000 inhabitants from around the world. At the centre stands the Matrimandir, the “soul of the city”, a place for individual silent concentration, in an oval shaped Peace Area surrounded by a lake. Radiating out beyond the lake are four Zones – the… Continue reading Auroville – The City of Universal Culture!