Urvashi - Staged Portrait, Gulmohar Park, Delhi; Street play, Om Swaha, India Gate, Delhi; Urvashi - Anti Dowry Sit-in

Sheba Chhachhi · 1980-91

Here we have Urvashi - Staged Portrait, Gulmohar Park, Delhi; Street play, Om Swaha, India Gate, Delhi; Urvashi - Anti Dowry Sit-in — a photograph by Sheba Chhachhi, nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety-one. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 2024 · Dimensions 30 × 20" (76.2 × 50.8 cm) · Credit Judith and Wm. Brian Little Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 205: The Navarasa Suite from the series Bombay Photo Studio

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Manuscript Notes of Marcel Duchamp 1912-1920 from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box])

More by Sheba Chhachhi here: Radha - Staged Portrait, Anandlok, Delhi; Radha - Staged Portrait Set-up, Anandlok, Delhi, Sathyarani - Anti Dowry Demonstration, Delhi; Sathyarani - Staged Portrait, Punjabi Bagh Residence, Delhi; Sathyarani - Staged Portrait, Supreme Court, Delhi