Mahmud Gawan Madrasa, Bidar
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
mounted: 32.7 × 25.5 cm · paper: 26 × 19.7 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
J.H. Wade Trust Fund
Accession Number
2024.81
Tags
male
About this artwork
The architectural decoration on the tower echoes patterns on Bidri ware (see 2020.206), ornamented metallic vessels cast from condensed vapors of zinc in a technique native to that city. This image is notable for the precision and poetry with which the people are posed. Most gaze at the camera, probably instructed to do so by Deen Dayal; this is rarely the case in images by foreign photographers.