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| Mahatma Gandhi, Mr. & Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Pandit Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai & Birla Family, 1942 Vintage Gelatin Silver Print, Estate of Jayant Patel, Bombay Photo Stores Private Ltd, Calcutta |
Please join Payal Arts International and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 from 6-8pm in the nation's capital for an evening highlighting the photographic archive of the late Jayant Patel.
We are pleased to invite you to a presentation of Jayant Patel’s vintage photographic estate depicting India from 1940 to 1970. David P. Good, veteran diplomat, former U.S. Consul General in Mumbai, and a student of recent Indian history, will offer remarks on the significance of Patel’s work. Following the presentation Ashley J. Tellis will outline Carnegie’s plans to launch a research center in New Delhi. Jayant Patel was the official photographer to the Raj Bhavan in Calcutta, the seat of the British governance in Bengal until independence and later the residence of the Indian governor of West Bengal. Working from his Calcutta studio, Bombay Photo Stores, Patel processed film for the U.S. and British military during World War II, and was in a position to witness the major events of India’s independence struggle in eastern India as well as the early days of the new Indian republic. Patel’s work captured decisive moments involving dignitaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, British governor of Bengal Lord Casey, Jawaharlal Nehru, and visiting leaders like China’s Chiang Kai-shek. For his personal pleasure, Patel also photographed scenes of Calcutta in the 1940s, and locations elsewhere, including Kashmir, Darjeeling, Agra, and Orissa – a priceless record of a bygone time in India.
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