Calcutta caught on the camera
Oksie, how about compiling a list of places (photographers) which has Calcutta caught on the camera?
Here's to start:
1) Point and Shoot
2) Mr. Amal Sircar @ PN
3) Waddell Collection at UPenn
4) Hensley Collection at UChicago
5) Anupam Basu @ PN
6) Jacques Henry @ PN
7) Sunondo @ Flickr
ps: Has anyone noticed how shabbiness is a common theme in all the sets? Plus, the emphasis on B&W, connoting a ubiquitous sense of an era long bygone?
posted by Anonymous @ 3:40 PM
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I didnt know there was such an active blogger community in calcutta! good job guys!! Just curious though... are most of you based in calcutta, or are you guys from calcutta spread all over?
thanks for the links. there's some problem with the first link, but the photos of kolkata in the second one is really really beautiful.
Check out this link for some truly amazing shots of Calcutta from 1945/46 taken by a US Army photographer. Especially check out the captions and choice of subjects: snake-charmers - check, begging children - check, sacred cows - check.
very nice links both biplab and urmea. Thanks!
BTW there's a very nice book called Ten Walks in calcutta which has a list of real interesting walks in Cal streets. The last time I was in Cal a friend of my uncle who is kind of well versed with different parts of Cal took us out on this splendid tour of some of the most wonderful places to visit and photograph in Cal incl St Johns church and Job Charnock's samadhi, the flower market under the Howrah bridge, some lesser known and less populated ghaats on the river, the Nakhoda masjid, Kalighater mandir, Thakur bari and not to mention the other touristy spots like Victoria et al.It was very educational and emotional for me.
Anupam Basu and Jacques Henry's Calcutta folders @PN.
just to add my little bit, literally, here's a link to my album.
Really just an amateur photographer (despite my art school background, so there's lots I'm still learning about available light. Any feedback is very welcome.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85696985@N00/sets/72057594051072430/
she to dekhchi kintu apni gelen kothay? Ivan eshe giley niyeche naki?
maaney...where's your blog gone? and where have YOU disappeared?
Calcutta Photos at
http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=563&chapterid=159&picturesize=medium
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