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Madan Mahatta
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A Building Sonata
by Shruti Parthasarathy
Madan Mahatta at PHOTOINK
April 26th, 2012 - August 11th, 2012
Posted
6/4/12
A square, aerial shot of the Escorts factory at the city’s outskirts opens the photographic narrative of Delhi, chronicling its period of high modernism from the 1950s - 1980s by Madan Mahatta, one of Delhi’s earliest professional photographers. After studying photography in England, Mahatta returned home to join his family-run studio, Mahatta & Co, in New Delhi’s Connaught Place in 1954. His proximity to artists and architects gave him a ringside view of the changes that swept Delhi in the w... [more]
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