portal
the curious account of achintya bose
(2015-2018)
The Bose Colour Studio, a rather modest photography lab situated near Sovabazar, Calcutta, chose to permanently shut their business in 2015. The personal diary of the owner, maintained sporadically from 1994 to 1996 before his unexplained disappearance, has recently been excavated. The diary is a ‘found archive’ that contains his collection of photographic prints, letters, torn pages from books, newspaper and magazine cuttings, declassified police records, polaroids and print advertisements obtained from different sources. Through these documents spanning the entire Twentieth Century, he had attempted to trace photographic “evidence” and information about an elusive woman who seemingly does not age.
Co-published by Tulika Books and Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation in November, 2020.
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This work has been supported by the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography (2016) disbursed by the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation.