2021.503: An Untouchable by the Ganges River, Varanasi, India, 1986. Since contact with corpses would contaminate members of higher castes such as Brahmins, only Untouchables are permitted to cremate bodies by the holy river.
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2021.503
- People
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Lauren Greenfield, American (Boston, Massachusetts born 1966)
- Title
- An Untouchable by the Ganges River, Varanasi, India, 1986. Since contact with corpses would contaminate members of higher castes such as Brahmins, only Untouchables are permitted to cremate bodies by the holy river.
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1986
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/373304
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Archival pigment print
- Technique
- Pigment print
- Dimensions
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sheet: 45.9 × 32.4 cm (18 1/16 × 12 3/4 in.)
image: 45.2 × 31.8 cm (17 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Lauren Greenfield, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Annenberg Space for Photography and Lauren Greenfield
- Copyright
- © Lauren Greenfield
- Accession Year
- 2021
- Object Number
- 2021.503
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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