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Refocusing the Lens: Pranlal K. Patel’s Photographs of Women at Work in Ahmedabad
ndian photographer Pranlal K. Patel (b. 1910-2014) was known for the wide range of subjects he captured in the course of seventy years as an active photographer. In 1937, Patel was approached by Ahmedabad’s Jyoti Sangh, a Gujarati women’s social reform organization, which hired him to photograph women engaged in a variety of economic activities that supported the growing city’s life. Refocusing the Lens: Pranlal K. Patel’s Photographs of Women at Work in Ahmedabad provides unprecedented insight into the lives of working-class women as they performed a range of labor activities inside their homes as well as within the city’s neighborhoods and its major markets. Challenging the archival view of women’s work as limited to the domestic sphere, isolated, and sex-segregated, Patel’s...
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ndian photographer Pranlal K. Patel (b. 1910-2014) was known for the wide range of subjects he captured in the course of seventy years as an active photographer. In 1937, Patel was approached by Ahmedabad’s Jyoti Sangh, a Gujarati women’s social reform organization, which hired him to photograph women engaged in a variety of economic activities that supported the growing city’s life. Refocusing the Lens: Pranlal K. Patel’s Photographs of Women at Work in Ahmedabad provides unprecedented insight into the lives of working-class women as they performed a range of labor activities inside their homes as well as within the city’s neighborhoods and its major markets. Challenging the archival view of women’s work as limited to the domestic sphere, isolated, and sex-segregated, Patel’s...