Cleveland Museum of Art
India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
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- Date
- c. 1890–1910
- Medium
- Photochrom
- Culture
- India, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 360444
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This busy street corner gives us a glimpse into everyday life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century India. Unlike most of the mid-19th century genre photographs of colonial India, which were posed or staged, here people go about their business, unaware that they are being photographed. The color scene was made using a black-and-white negative by Dr. Kurt Boeck, a German actor and mountain climber who became a travel writer and lecturer specializing in Asia. Chitpore (now spelled Chitpur) Road is one of the oldest roads in Kolkata (previously Calcutta).
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- Credit line
- Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
- Provenance
- Collection of Gunther Heil, Germany | Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA | September 9, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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