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INDIA | The Land of Dreams and Romance

5 March 2017 ♦

STORIES

In 1896, at age 60, Mark Twain traveled throughout India for three months. As I read his words, I saw my photographs of India… “This is indeed India; the land of dreams and romance, of fabulous wealth and fabulous poverty, of splendor and rags, of palaces and hovels, of famine…

Weird but Wonderful | Photo Op

30 May 2012 ♦

WEIRD BUT WONDERFUL

An enterprising, but frustrated, young man orchestrating a family of tourists to have their photo taken in front of an image of the very palace they are standing in. The City Palace, Jaipur, India

Eye on Design | India | Baubles and Bangles

6 December 2011 ♦

EYE ON DESIGN

In India, a Hindu woman isn’t fully dressed for her wedding unless she is wearing sixteen adornments, but even in everyday life, Indian women are bejeweled and bedazzled. Bring on the bangles… (more…)

Style Moment | Marigolds in Jaipur

2 December 2011 ♦

STYLE MOMENTS

“It was as if all my life I had been seeing the world in black and white and, when brought face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant technicolor. Keith Bellows (born 1952) Vice President of the National Geographic Society