Calcutta : Chitpur Road neighborhoods / Kolkata Heritage Photo Project ; edited by Peter Bialobrzeski ; [photographers, Claudia Aguilar [and others] ; translations: Melissa Hause, Barbara Holle].

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Calcutta : Chitpur Road neighborhoods / Kolkata Heritage Photo Project ; edited by Peter Bialobrzeski ; [photographers, Claudia Aguilar [and others] ; translations: Melissa Hause, Barbara Holle].

Publication:

Description:

143 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm

Notes:
Exhibition catalog: "Exhibitions: Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, November 29, 2007 - January 27, 2008 ; Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, February 8 - March 24, 2008 ; CIMA, Calcutta, May/June 2008"--Colophon.
"Exhibitions: Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, November 29, 2007 - January 27, 2008 ; Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, February 8 - March 24, 2008 ; CIMA, Calcutta, May/June 2008"--Cf. colophon.
Greek columns, Indian souls = Griechische säulen, indische seele / Florian Hanig -- Plates -- Architectural treasures = Architektonische kleinode / Manish Chakraborti -- Appendix.
Texts in English and German.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In nineteenth-century Calcutta, a financially strong Indian elite emerged under the rule of the British East India Company, building up eclectic Bengali equivalents of industrialists' mansions, apparent stylistic blends of traditional Mogul architecture with more classical elements. Today, the erstwhile magnificent villas and palaces retain only a trace of their former splendor, and it seems only a matter of time before the last stone remnants of a once brilliant Bengali upper middle class disappear for good. Under the guidance of Peter Bialobrzeski, twenty-one photography students from the University of the Arts Bremen captured the fading, crumbling grandeur of this culturally rich heirloom as part of the Kolkata Heritage photo Project."--Jacket.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

9783775721066 (hd. bd.)
3775721061 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Architecture India Kolkata 19th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Inde Kolkata 19e siècle Expositions.
Architecture
Buildings
Arkitektur Indien Calcutta 1800-talet utställningskataloger.
Arkitekturfotografi Tyskland sekelskiftet 2000.
Fotokonst Tyskland sekelskiftet 2000.
Architecture India Kolkata 19th century Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Architectural photography India Kolkata History 21st century Exhibitions.
Kolkata (India) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
India Kolkata
Calcutta byggnader bildverk.
Kolkata (India) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works Exhibitions.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
Exhibition catalogs

Added entries:

Bialobrzeski, Peter.
Aguilar, Claudia
Kolkata Heritage Photo Project.
Willy-Brandt-Haus
Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Centre of International Modern Art (Calcutta, India)

Chitpur Road neighborhoods

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Location: Library main m 258816
Call No.: BIB 189630
Status: Available

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