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Jyoti Bhatt

Haryana Women Making “Sanjhi” at Craft Village, New Delhi, 1977

Description

Maker

  • Jyoti Bhatt, b. 1934, Indian

Title

Haryana Women Making “Sanjhi” at Craft Village, New Delhi

Year

1977

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Sheet: 25.1 x 35.6 cm (9 7/8 x 14 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Walter H. Kimball Fund

Object Number

2018.21.2

About

This photograph documents a moment in Sanjhi Puja, a 10-day festival for unmarried girls in northern India. Women and girls mold decorative shapes such as stars, moon, suns, and flowers from cow dung or mud and apply them to a wall in the form of Sanjhi, the mother goddess. Fearing longstanding folk traditions and customs would be lost in the rapid urbanization of India, Jyoti Bhatt devoted 25 years to photographing these makers and their art.

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Collective Recollection

July 27, 2018 - January 20, 2019

Modern and Contemporary Galleries

This photograph documents a moment in Sanjhi Puja, a 10-day festival for unmarried girls in northern India. Women and girls mold decorative shapes such as stars, moon, suns, and flowers from cow dung or mud and apply them to a wall in the form of Sanjhi, the mother goddess. Fearing longstanding folk traditions and customs would be lost in the rapid urbanization of India, Jyoti Bhatt devoted 25 years to photographing these makers and their art.

Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries

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