Exhibition (San Francisco, 2000) Homepage This page is now mainly of historical interest. You could scroll down to view some of the images as they load. We suggest you then move to the Virtual Exhibition (SF 2000) site.
T O P I C S	O N   T H I S   P A G E (Q u i c k   V i e w)	O N   R E L A T E D   P A G E S (C l o s e r   V i e w s)
Who & What: (Content)	Basics:  Preface Details:  Links Index	Virtual Exhibition (SF 2000) Slideshow Introduction	Historical Note Press Release
When & Where: (Event)	Basics:  Garos Poster Details:  Kalart Gallery
And Beyond:		New York '98 Exhibition Other Exhibitions	Sunil Janah's Home Page Reviews

  For better visibility against the black background, links on this page have been set to green.
Visited links have been set to red.
 

P   R   E   F   A   C   E
	This site is best viewed with your browser set to full-screen view. If you are using AOL's browser, it would be best to minimize the AOL window(s) and switch to another browser.
	The San Francisco (2000) exhibition was curated by Sunil, Monua and Sobha Janah. The exhibition contains more than 150 photographs by Sunil Janah, documenting India's struggle for independence from the British; the partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan; life in villages and factories; dance and architecture; and the hidden world of India's remote tribes. top right:   a dance master from Kerala middle four:   the dancer Indrani Rahman bottom right:   maestro Bade Gulam Ali Khan   © Sunil Janah 1950-2000 This page provides glimpses of the exhibition, plus links to context and illustrated reviews. The complete exhibition can be viewed, in miniature, along with section texts, at the Virtual Exhibition site. Biographical and historical background can be found summarized in the Press Release, Historical Note, and Slideshow Introduction - all listed in the Index below. For more, see under the "Reviews" and "More Context and Photographs" headings in the Index.

Sunil Janah:

Inside India 1940-1975

Rare Images by India's

Legendary Photographer

Kalart Gallery

San Francisco

2000 Sep 14 - Oct 12

Garos fishing, Garo Hills, Meghalaya, 1940's.            
© Sunil Janah 1940-2000              

Links Index Virtual Exhibition (San Francisco, 2000) The entire exhibition will be viewable here: panels, captions and section-texts. This is now complete, save for the Land and People section, and well worth a visit. Kalart Gallery This shows exactly where and when the exhibition was held. Press Release - Monua Janah This provides some concise historical and biographical information. See also the "Historical Note" below. Historical Note - Monua Janah This provides some more detailed historical and cultural background. Please see also the articles by Guptara and Ramachandran in the "Earlier Reviews" section below, and the entries in the "More Context.." section below. Slide Show Introduction This gives some historical and biographical context, illustrated with photographs, in slideshow format. Earlier Reviews These contain historical & biographical information. Current Reviews More Context and Photographs For more context and photographs, see: Virtual Exhibition-See above Sunil Janah's Home Page - Index and Introduction Exhibition, NY '98 Page - esp. Introduction, Curator's Note and Context to Exhibits Reviews - See above Related Links A copy of the Press Release can also be found in the Sunil Janah Exhibition advertisement in the Bengali web-magazine Parabaas.

Below:   Portraits of cultural figures © Sunil Janah 1940-2000     Moving mouse pointer onto image shows captions briefly, in a yellow box. (Netscape's box may not show all the captions.) If the box vanishes, move pointer out of image and back again. Captions are also given below the image. It is best to view this full-screen . Above top:   sage Jiddu Krishnamurthy, physicist Satyen Bose upper middle:   painter Jamini Roy, film director Satyajit Ray lower middle:   poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, novelist Manik Bandopadhya bottom:   photographer Margaret Bourke-White © Sunil Janah 1940-2000 (To view captions with image, see note on top of image.)

Kalart Gallery
855 Sansome Street, 3rd Flr
(between Broadway & Pacific)
San Francisco, California 94111.
Tel: (415) 693-9727 
Fax: (415) 362-8158
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Sat, 10-6, Sun 12-6

The Inside India exhibition runs:
2000 Sep 14 - Oct 12
View of Kalart Gallery, showing the start of the History section. Photographs © Sunil Janah 1939-2000. The individual photographs are not clearly visible in this image. They can be seen more clearly at the  Virtual Exhibition - SF 2000.

• Portraits of Nehru and Gandhi, at the gallery entrance, are barely visible in the right background.
• The panels in the center show meetings, processions & leaders from the independence, labor & peasant movements of the 1940's.
• The panel on the far left shows scenes of human devastation from the man-made "Bengal famine" of 1943-44.

Left: the photographer with young visitors at the installation.

 

Top - Topics	Links Index
Kalart Gallery	Press Release
Virtual Exhibition (SF 2000)	Historical Note
Slideshow Introduction	New York '98 Home Page
Sunil Janah's Home Page

This page is now only of historical interest. To view the image panels and texts of the San Francisco exhibition of 2000, we suggest that you go directly to the Virtual Exhibition (SF 2000) site.