Close-up view of the Durga Temple, Aihole, India

People:

Thomas Biggs (photographer)

Title:

Close-up view of the Durga Temple, Aihole, India

Date:

between 1854 and 1866

Description:

- This photograph is from book PH1980:1219:001-100, 'Architecture in Dharwar and Mysore', which has been disassembled for the CCA exhibition 'Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation/Empreintes de l'Inde: Photographie, architecture et politiques de la représentation'.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print from paper negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 27.6 x 39.5 cm secondary support: 35.5 x 54.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:1219:073

Point of View:

close-up view
exterior view

Inscription:

signed and numbered - by the photographer, in the negative, l.l.: "Biggs / 14"

Location:

Aihole; Karnataka; India;

Subject:

architecture
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
temple
reliefs
figures (representations)
piers (supporting elements)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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