India in Focus: 

Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla

by Sabeena Gadihoke 

First edition.  Ahmedabad, India:  Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 2006 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition, with a VERY GOOD DJ under Mylar.

• Gray covers are mostly clean, with black title to spine.  Boards show a little edgewear.  Corners are scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has black text and is bright with bumped ends.  See photos.  
• Binding is strong. 
• Illustrated end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations, 54 color and 450 black & white photographs, are bright and clear.  
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear, with a small dent at lower right of the opening pages.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• DJ looks great behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• Close examination of DJ reveals light edgewear including possible bumps, rubbing, and/or tiny closed tears, small chips to spine ends.  See photos.  
• PS2026.0708

231 pages. 11 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches

ISBN: 81-88204-66-8

First edition.  Square quarto format.  Publisher's gray cloth with black title to spine.  With pictorial dust jacket, unclipped.  Book and jacket show few signs of age, with just a little rubbing to the corners.  Condition is overall Very Good Plus.

The first edition of this photocentric biography of the life and work of Homai Vyarawalla (1913–2012), published as a UNESCO-Parzor Publication.  A second edition was issued in 2010 at the time of a retrospective exhibition of her work entitled 'Homai Vyarawalla: A Retrospective,' which ran from August to October 2010 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.

Homai Vyarawalla, known also by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist.  She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, and then worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she retired.  This monograph uses this pioneering female photographer's large body of work to narrate the history of post-independence India. 

First Edition.

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