Saturday 22 May 2010

Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh


Breathtaking exhibition which was organized by Whitechapel Gallery was the one really worth seeing. Where Three Dreams Cross exhibition itself as a historical survey of culture and modernity through the eyes of photographers from the Indian subcontinent – photographers.
The work was separated into five themes: The Performance, The Portrait, The Family, The Body Politic and The Street ,works selected from last 150 years.
It appeared to me as the most popular work and included in both The Portrait and The Family section, were the intricate hand painted portraits of the last 19th century, portraits of families. These objects are beautiful in themselves, oranataly framed with their vibrant, unusual colourings.
The body Politic section included the work by Pablo Bartholomew, an arresting story of heroin addiction, Menem Wasif's on the effects of global warming in Bangladesh. In the same section of Politics, few key photography books displaly in glass cases.
Most of the photographs reveal the reality of everyday life, and the rich history of photographic portrait studios in India, with their elaborate backdrops and costumes.
The collection includes an absorbing shot of mother Teresa with her world weary, deeply lined face in her hands at her home in Kolkata, as well as images of Gandhi & Nehru throughout the Indian independence movement and the subsequent division of India and Pakistan. However, what the exhibition does best is to portray the similarity of humanity, despite cultural, religious and class divisions.

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/where-three-dreams-cross-150-years-of-photography-from-india-pakistan-and-bangladesh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA9H0n9CZAM

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