*We weren’t allowed to take photos at the exhibit*
I went to visit the Modernism on the Ganges exhibit at the Met Breuer. In order to reach the exhibit, you need to enter the elevators to the right of the entrance. Take the elevator to the second floor, and the exhibit takes up the entire floor. The room is split into multiple sections, with a collection of his photographs as well as others strewn about the exhibition.In the exhibitions, two of his photos caught my interest because of their subject matter as well as the compositional elements.
The first photo was the Sunhas Chandra Bose Statue, which was taken in 1971. The photo shows two gentlemen holding a green door that has a hole for a window, but the window was removed. In the window frame was a statue, creating a frame within a frame composition. This drew my attention to the statue first before viewing the rest of the photograph because it was framed by the window frame, which took up most of the photo.
The other photo that caught my attention was Goa, which was taken in 1996. The photo shows the inside of a car looking over a wall at a large white building. While this photo also has a frame within a frame because we are seeing the image through a car windshield, the main focus is the patterning on the wall and the reflection of another car in the rear-view mirror. The bricks that make up the wall in front of the building creates a pattern. The photo also has a reflection in the rear-view mirror of a car, making this photo have many elements.
