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Photographs(This page is not yet complete. )
The following are some images that we happened to have at hand. They are samples of Sunil Janah's work, but were not picked by him, and are not necessarily representative of his best work. Owing to limitations on web space and download speed, they are mostly low resolution images. They were scanned with a hand scanner or flatbed scanner and compressed using Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop. The web pages were constructed using Windows 3.1's Notepad. If viewed (without magnification) on a good image viewer, the image quality should be good: sharp, with strong blacks and highlights, and smooth grays.
Sample PhotographsThese are larger images, and are currently few in number.
Other images will be listed later. For now, please see: Web Pages with PhotographsThese are medium-size images, appearing in context.
Slideshows
Virtual ExhibitionsIntroductionThe two virtual exhibitions are based on real exhibitions, curated by Ram Rahman in New York City in 1998, and by Sunil, Monua and Sobha Janah in San Francisco in 2000. They consist mostly of reconstructions, from photographs taken at the two real exhibitions, of silver-gelatin prints grouped into panels. These panel shots are grouped into sections, such as History, Industry, Personalities, Dance, Temple Sculpture, Land and People... Each section is prefaced with text setting the panels in that section into their historical or regional context. These section texts are sometimes illustrated with larger (medium-size) images of the individual photographic prints.
Progress and Request for Images There were hundreds of images in each exhibition. Moreover, we are, in reality, but one solitary worker, working on this in bits of spare time stolen from sleep and other necessary survival activities. Therefore, even eight years after the first real exhibition, and four years after the second, this remains a work in progress. We would be grateful if anyone who took good quality photographs of the panels in the real exhibitions (see note below) could send us copies, so we can speed up this process and display even better, larger images. Please see the note below the links, which compares the contents of the two exhibitions, before clicking on the links. Links
Comparitive Note As mentioned above, the two virtual exhibitions, VENY'98 and VESF'00, are based on real exhibitions, curated by Ram Rahman in New York City in 1998, and by Sunil, Monua and Sobha Janah in San Francisco in 2000. Full texts for the sections are available for both the virtual exhibitions. However, the shots of the exhibition panels are complementary for the two, in the following sense: the VENY'98 has these panel shots complete only for its Land and People section (and partially complete for its Personalities section); the VESF'00 has, on the other hand, all panel shots complete except for those in its Land and People section. At present, the size of the panel shots are larger, in general, for the New York exhibition panels. Although the selection of photographs was different for the two exhibitions, there was some commonality. The arrangements of these photographs into panels, however, especially for the two Land and People sections, were quite different. In the New York exhibition, these arrangements, in some of the Land and People panels, were governed more strongly by visual design considerations. In the San Francisco exhibition, the arrangements were more strictly constrained by the natural regional contiguities of peoples and landscapes in the subcontinent. The History sections provide visual overviews of many of the important events, affecting millions, that took place in the subcontinent from 1939 to 1970, along with textual commentary. These panel shots are currently available only for the San Francisco exhibition. Hopefully, they will soon also be available for the New York exhibition, which had a History section that was even more comprehensive. Catalogs
Descriptions & Views of Sample Photographs
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