Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary is the first major survey exhibition of Indian photography in Australia. Drawn from the collection of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru, images on display celebrate Indian history, architecture, culture, and tradition beginning its journey in 1860, with works by pioneering studio photographers, such as Samuel Bourne and Lala Deen Dayal, through to the present with works by contemporary artists including Suresh Punjabi, Pushpamala N, Karen Knorr, and Michael Bühler-Rose, to name a few of the forty or so individual practitioners and photographic studios.
Suresh Punjabi, Untitled (Full-length portrait of a man), Suhag Studio, Nagda, Madhya Pradesh, 1985, pigment ink-jet print, 125 × 125cm. Courtesy the artist, Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru, India and Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Curated by Nathaniel Gaskell,, rtists include Darogah Abbas Ali, Indu Antony, Felice Beato, Mitter Bedi, Jyoti Bhatt, Bourne & Shepherd, Samuel Bourne, Michael Bühler-Rose, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chunni Lall & Co., Lala Deen Dayal, Francis Frith & Co., Gauri Gill, Khubiram Gopilal, Hamilton Studios Ltd, Johnston and Hoffmann, Willoughby Wallace Hooper, William Johnson, John William Kaye and John Forbes Watson, Karen Knorr, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Steve McCurry, Saché & Murray Studios, Pushpamala N with Clare Arni, Nicolas & Company (attributed), Norman Parkinson, Anoli Perera, Suresh Punjabi, Marc Riboud, John Edward Saché, Charles Scott (attributed), Sawai Ram Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur, Edward Taurines (attributed), Waswo X Waswo, Wiele and Klein Studio, and Wilson Studios Bombay.
Monash Gallery of Art
17 December 2021 to 20 March 2022
Melbourne
