WILLIAM DALRYMPLE : THE HISTORIAN'S EYE: Pundole's Mumbai Exhibition
Pundole's is pleased to announce renowned author and historian William Dalrymple’s return to the lens in a stunning exhibition of black-and-white photographs, chronicling people and places, and the inter-relationships among them, in the Historian’s Eye.
The Historian’s Eye presents a photographic record of William Dalrymple’s travels across the country over the last two years while researching his latest book titled The Anarchy, published by Bloomsbury in September 2019. It features a unique set of images of the places where art and history were being made in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and includes a small selection of photographs from modern-day Pakistan.
William Dalrymple is well-known and recognized for his writing, but photography was his first love, the artistic outlet of his youth. The purchase of a Samsung Edge camera phone in recent years led to his re-discovery of the medium. Dalrymple’s approach to photography – facilitated here by the mobility and immediacy of a camera phone – is intuitive and instinctive, while his aesthetic reflects the sensibility of polished, economical prose, resulting in stark, high-contrast images pared down to their essence.
Photographs are intrinsically bound to place and time, but Dalrymple’s images create a wrinkle in time that highlight an intermingling of the monumental past and fleeting present. Each photograph reveals a narrative tension within itself, between stillness and movement, history and reality. A boy skips down the passage, a cyclist turns at the gate, a hawk circles the dome: the past by turn is present, unveiled, subverted and transformed in the contemporary moment through the historian’s lens.
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William Dalrymple , The Palace of Carlos V Grenada
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William Dalrymple, The Court of the Myrtles, the Alhambra, Granada
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William Dalrymple , The Palais des Rais
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William Dalrymple, Heading home, Shyok gorges, Pakistan
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William Dalrymple , Dawn over Skardu, Pakistan I
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William Dalrymple , Dawn over Skardu, Pakistan II
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William Dalrymple , The Medracen
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William Dalrymple , Early morning , Mehrangarh Fort , Jodhpur II
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William Dalrymple , Early morning, Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur I
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William Dalrymple , Godhuli Bela: Cow-dust Time, Rohet, Jodhpur
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William Dalrymple , Overgrown Basilica, Bassein
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William Dalrymple , After the monsoon, Chamba
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William Dalrymple, Jantar Mantar, Delhi
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William Dalrymple , Jharna, Near Hauz-i-Shamsi, Mehrauli, Delhi
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William Dalrymple , Solah Khamba Masjid, Bidar Fort
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William Dalrymple , Interior of Jama Masjid, Old Delhi
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William Dalrymple , Monsoon afternoon, Safdar Jung's Tomb, Delhi
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William Dalrymple , The Siddi Boumediene Mosque
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William Dalrymple , The sacred centre, Hampi
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William Dalrymple , Shey Stupa Field Ladakh
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William Dalrymple , The Valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan
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William Dalrymple, Shalimar Bagh, Lahore
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William Dalrymple , Karle Caves
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William Dalrymple , Rajon ki baoli, Mehrauli, Delhi
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William Dalrymple , Shah Jahan Masjid, Thatta
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William Dalrymple , Shah Jahan Masjid, Thatta 2
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William Dalrymple , Shah Jahan Masjid, Thatta 3