Gallery BBM "Eros, Bombay," by an unknown photographer.
On any given night in Mumbai, the odds are relatively high that you can find people drum and singing and dancing barefoot on the streets as they celebrate a marriage or religious festival. With its endless buzz of people, cars and parts streets, the city is with energy. But a new exhibition at Gallery BBM (Yantra annex, Queen's building, Ghanshyam Talwatkar Marg, near to the Cathedral high school; 91-22-6171-5757 www.gallerybmb.com), which runs through January 10 shows photographs in the 1930s and 1940s, which depict the city from a different angle: inter alia, calm and peaceful.
"When it was Bombay" consists of 20 pictures of the city, taken before its name changed to Mumbai and its population reaches upward 16 million inhabitants.
"This is a big difference now," said Kanchi Mehta, curator of the show, as she sought through photographs. "Whenever I look at these I'm like, ' wow, what life must have been like at the time." ”
Images, based on the negatives of unknown photographers by a collector, show of vintage cars, dated modes and dirt roads.
Photographs offer especially locations of iconic Mumbai - the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, marine flora fountain drive - but they surprisingly different. In one, a fire door India, it seems that all tourists dressed in camera and hawkers, sale of postcards and snacks have suddenly disappeared.
Photography Bandra station, railway station now held Mumbai suburban commuter seems so calm and quiet that is barely recognizable. Instead of masses of commuters in the station and auto-pousse-pousse lines waiting outside, there is only a half dozen people seek to be pressed. Photography captures a character of Mumbai has not disappeared as the city has transformed: there is a cow stroll in the middle of the road.
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