Benares, India (Weavers Preparing Threads on a Loom)

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2008.11
People: William Gedney
Title: Benares, India (Weavers Preparing Threads on a Loom)
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: c. 1970
Places: Creation Place: South Asia, India, Uttar Pradesh, Benares
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/323614

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Silver gelatin print
Dimensions: 19.37 x 29.21 cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jose M. Soriano
Accession Year: 2008
Object Number: 2008.11
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Bold diagonals are created by the stretched warps of a loom in the lower right of the composition and by a road running parallel to them above. Two men in the foreground count and separate warp threads while four other men tend the loom behind them. In the street above, a man in a white shirt and lungi walks down the street by a row of houses, leading the viewer's eye deeper into the airy composition.

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