Witness to life and freedom : Margaret Bourke-White in India & Pakistan / concept, text, and visuals, Pramod Kapoor ; foreword, Gopalkrishna Gandhi ; with an essay by Vicki Goldberg.

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Kapoor, Pramod.

Title & Author:

Witness to life and freedom : Margaret Bourke-White in India & Pakistan / concept, text, and visuals, Pramod Kapoor ; foreword, Gopalkrishna Gandhi ; with an essay by Vicki Goldberg.

Publication:

New Delhi : Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2010.

Description:

139 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm

Summary:

"Some of Margaret's most celebrated photographs were taken in India and Pakistan in 1947-48 [for Life magazine] ... She photographed the times and the leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah. She was eyewitness to the migration of millions and the mayhem of communal violence that accompanied the subcontinent's partition into two independent nations."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9788174366993
8174366997

Subject:

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.
India History Partition, 1947 Pictorial works.
Inde Histoire 1947 (Partage) Ouvrages illustrés.
India

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287488
Call No.: BIB 228568
Status: Available

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