Delhi's Modernist Architecture in Photographs

Delhi's Hall of Nations. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Veteran photographer Madan Mahatta took shots of some of the prominent buildings that defined the landscape of Delhi from the 1950s to the 1980s, as the city was embracing Modernist architecture. An exhibition of his work is on at the Photoink gallery in New Delhi till July 2, 2012.

Buildings photographed by Mr. Mahatta, who is from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, include those designed by some of the best known architects of the time, including Habib Rahman, American architect Joseph Allen Stein and Jasbir Sawhney.

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Videos: Evolution of Modern Art

Looked at with the right eyes, a chronological sequence depicting the evolution of modern art can be detected by moving from video to video.

Henri Matisse



Georges Braque



Paul Gauguin



Gustav Klimt



Filippo Tommaso Marinetti



Piet Mondrian



Jackson Pollock



Roy Lichtenstein



Andy Warhol



Mark Rothko



Barnett Newman

Meet the ultimate 'retro daddy'

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Americana expert Charles Phoenix relives road trips to Palm Springs, forays into thrift stores and date farms, and calls for the comeback of the chuckwagon.

DRESSED IN A CUSTOM-TAILORED SUIT and trademark rhinestone Colonel Sanders bow tie, Charles Phoenix flips through hilarious and sometimes bizarre slides of strangers and their homes and cars and families, taking a standing-room-only audience at Palm Springs Art Museum’s Annenberg Theater through a rip-roaring Technicolor look at yesteryear.

Twenty years ago, this self-proclaimed “retro daddy” found a shoebox full of vintage Kodachrome slides in a thrift shop marked “Trip Across the United States 1957,” and his obsession with midcentury Americana was born. Today, he lives by this mantra: “Get in touch with your inner Americana, embrace it, have a sense of humor about it, and proudly share it with the whole wide world.”

Phoenix — author of seven books, including Southern Californialand: Mid-Century Culture in Kodachrome (Angel City Press, 2004) — travels the country with his retro slideshow. Palm Springs Life caught up with him during Modernism Week.

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