India. Calcutta. Upper Chitpore Road (A), after photo by Dr. Kurt Boeck
Photoglob Co. (Zurich, active c. 1890–1910)
c. 1890–1910
Medium
Photochrom
Dimensions
image: 20.6 × 26.2 cm · paper: 20.6 × 26.2 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer
Accession Number
2019.187
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.