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Bhupendra Karia
Vintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Al Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem Temple Mount Photo

1973

About the Item

This depicts an Arab, Muslim Man bowing in prayer on the Temple Mount, "Midday Prayers, Al Aqsa Grounds". A sacred site in Jerusalem, Israel. This is for one Photograph from the portfolio entitled "Jerusalem: City of Mankind," The mounting is 14 X 17 inches. the actual photo measurement is between 9.25 X 14 to 10.5 X 13.5 inches (22.9 X 35.6 to 26.7 X 34.3 cm.) This is hand signed on mount recto; and stamped on the reverse with photographers name and copyright info. In a folding jacket with a printed credit and title. The first copy was awarded to the President of the United States, the second to the President of the State of Israel, the third to the Mayor of Jerusalem and the fourth to the Baron Edmond de Rothschild. Rare Cornell Capa and Baron Edmond De Rothschild “Jerusalem: City Of Mankind” Photo Album 1973. It has been produced by the international fund for concerned photography, INC, New York for the women’s division of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York. 15 copied were reserved for participating photographers. Color prints are made by dye transfer process from original transparencies and black and white enlargements are made from original negatives under the photographers supervision. Design and production – Arnold Skolnick / Bhupendra Karia. Color prints by Berkey K & L Custom Services INC, New York. Black and white prints by Igor Bakht Werner Braun – Moonrise over the Knesset Robert Burroughs – At the Western Wall. Cornell Capa – View from the Israel Museum sculpture garden. Leonard Freed – Reading from Sephardic Torah scrolls. Ernst Haas – In the Arab quarter, Old City. Charles Harbutt – Easter, Holy fire. Ron Havilio – Wallscape. Bhupendra Karia – Midday prayers, Al Aqsa grounds. (outside the Mosque) Marc Riboud – Ecumenical landscape Billy rose garden, Israel museum. Ted Spiegel – Benedictine nun, Mount of Olives. Micha Bar-Am – Via Dolorosa on Friday. Bhupendra Karia (1936-1994) was known not just as a photographer, but also as an artist, teacher, theorist and curator. Following his graduation in 1956 from Sir J.J. College of Art in Bombay, where he concentrated on painting, graphics, and history, he studied history and aesthetics at Tokyo University of Fine Arts. It was in Japan that Karia received his photographic education, along with a strong understanding of Ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking and Japanese architecture. He returned to India as a well-versed photographic image-maker. With a keen interest in traditional crafts and village culture, Karia spoke of “listening to India with one’s eyes.” After teaching in and heading photography and graphic arts departments at the University of Southern California and the University of Baroda in the mid 1960s, Karia began to focus more and more exclusively on photography. Echoing earlier trips he had taken in rural India to make stone rubbings, Karia undertook extensive photographic journeys in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s, traveling for weeks, sometimes months at a time, covering, by his accounts, some 80,000 miles across India’s rural landscape. Karia’s early motivations for these trips seem to have been fueled by an anthropological impulse to explore and record rural India and its native creative traditions–textiles, pottery, and architectural decoration. As he spent more time in the villages and countryside, Karia began to broaden the context of his work, weaving together observations of rural and small town Indian life with larger concerns about social, political and environmental challenges facing contemporary India. Drawn to a like-minded photographer, Karia sought out Cornell Capa, who would become his mentor and friend. The project — Population Crisis was a commission series for Cornell University’s International Population Program and Capa’s International Fund for Concerned Photography. Capa went on to enlist Karia’s collaboration in establishing the International Center of Photography in New York in 1974. Karia held many positions at ICP including Curator, Director of Special Projects, and Associate Director. Ultimately, Karia would publish over 15 titles and curate over 45 exhibitions. Applying his curatorial eye to his own work in the mid 1970s, Karia painstakingly winnowed his oeuvre of a quarter million images to a selection of 74 photographs held in a portfolio that he called “the meager harvest of my first 20 years in photography.” No longer were the photographs understood within the context of social analysis, nor were they intended to appeal to primarily photojournalistic narrative expectations. Instead, they were chosen and printed to meet aesthetic standards and to reveal what Karia felt was his unique understanding of India. The resulting portfolio (twenty of which are represented in this exhibition) reflects his struggle to reconcile the photograph’s communicative role and its aesthetics; the reproducibility of the photograph and the singularity of the fine print; a truthful expression of India and his own unique, subjective vision. Karia’s photographic works have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Museum of Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy and private collections internationally.
  • Creator:
    Bhupendra Karia (1936 - 1994)
  • Creation Year:
    1973
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 17 in (43.18 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. this has been stored in a box. minor wear. this has not been framed.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3824946171
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