Friday, June 1, 2012

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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