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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.183
People
Dayanita Singh, Indian (New Delhi, India born 1961)
Title
Visitors at Anand Bhavan, Allahabad
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
2000
Places
Creation Place: South Asia, India, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad
Culture
Indian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/317314

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: H 104.4 x W 104.5 cm
Image H 93.2 x W 92.1 cm

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jose M. Soriano
Copyright
© Dayanita Singh. Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.183
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This large, square format, black and white photograph depicts a low bed lying horizontally at close range in the foreground of the composition and a group of figures behind it to the left, framed by the boundaries of a display window.

This photograph was taken inside Indira Gandhi's bedroom at Anand Bhavan, Nehru's family house in Allahabad. During a visit to the Fogg Museum in Fall, 2006, Singh described the moment that the photograph captures. Nehru's home is now a house museum and Singh had special access to work inside this room, which functioned as a display. The photograph was an unplanned surprise, she took the photo just as the visitors walk up to the window, both she and they were startled, and then they left as quickly as they came.

Publication History

  • Thomas W. Lentz, ed., Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2006-7, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2008), p. 16, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Focus on South Asian Photography: Recent Works, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/01/2007 - 05/06/2007

Verification Level

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