It was the era when the new India was finding its own identity from the shadows of the Raj. In 1970s, a young British came to India to find the English legacy and fell in love with buildings, people and the country itself. Derry Moore, the 12th Earl of Drogheda, a renowned photographer, who captured the interiors and portraits on the European aristocracy, including those of Queen Elizabeth II, published over a dozen books, including Evening Ragas — dedicated to India.
National Institute of Design (NID) has hosted an exhibition of over 100 photographs selected from Evening Ragas at its campus in collaboration with Tasveer Galleries from June 15 to 25. The exhibition was inaugurated in presence of NID director Pradyumna Vyas and noted photographers from the city and state.
"More alternates between rich, ornate interiors, revealing portraits and calm landscapes that sensitively records the charm, eccentricity and fading splendour of a post-colonial society," said a city photographer. The exhibition will travel to Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai.
In the book, Moore notes, 'A cultural osmosis was clearly discernible, that of British and European architecture on Indian buildings, and that of India and its climate, as well as its styles, on the British, like grandeur and a sense of space, rarely seen in Britain. Rooms were higher, windows larger, corridors wider, detail more lavish; the porticoes of relatively humble might have been snatched from the front of the British Museum.'
Source: TOI
National Institute of Design (NID) has hosted an exhibition of over 100 photographs selected from Evening Ragas at its campus in collaboration with Tasveer Galleries from June 15 to 25. The exhibition was inaugurated in presence of NID director Pradyumna Vyas and noted photographers from the city and state.
"More alternates between rich, ornate interiors, revealing portraits and calm landscapes that sensitively records the charm, eccentricity and fading splendour of a post-colonial society," said a city photographer. The exhibition will travel to Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai.
In the book, Moore notes, 'A cultural osmosis was clearly discernible, that of British and European architecture on Indian buildings, and that of India and its climate, as well as its styles, on the British, like grandeur and a sense of space, rarely seen in Britain. Rooms were higher, windows larger, corridors wider, detail more lavish; the porticoes of relatively humble might have been snatched from the front of the British Museum.'
Source: TOI