Larry K. Snider: Photographing India

Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 pm

Larry K. Snider will speak about India and his photography of Varanasi.  Regular museum admission, free to members.

Snider has been taking photographs in locations around the world for 30 years. He documents the people and landscape of a particular region, making a personal connection with that place and its culture.  In this series, Snider explores the city of Varanasi (also known as Benares), situated on the west bank of the Ganges (Ganga) River in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Varanasi is considered to be the most sacred of India's seven holy cities and it is visited annually by more than 1,000,000 Hindu pilgrims, who believe that bathing in the Ganges remits sins and that dying and being cremated in Varanasi releases a person^'s soul from the cycle of its transmigrations.  Mark Twain wrote: "Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.^" 

Snider is based in Chicago. He has produced major photographic studies on Peru, China, Tibet, and Myanmar among other locations.  His work is in the permanent collections of over 20 museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Center for Creative Photography.

Image: Varanasi, India, Larry K. Snider

 

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