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India in association with France is set to organise an exhibition in Bangladesh of photos taken by French lensmen Alain Danielou and Raymond Burnier, who stayed at Shantiniketan in West Bengal at the invitation of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
The photographers traveled by road from France to Afghanistan and made India their home between the late 1930s and 1950s, taking photographs of landscapes, various community rituals and ancient cave culture, among other places, at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh.
The exhibition titled ‘India through the lenses of Alain Danielou & Raymond Burnier’ has been jointly organised by the Indian High Commission and the Alliance Francaise.
Assistant Indian High Commissioner Subrata Bhattacharjee has opened the two-week long exhibition. He said that the duo contributed immensely to the awareness of Indian culture and history in the western world.
He added that many Europeans and Americans got their first glimpse of India through their photographs while the pictures they took during their trips to different Indian temples made those famous.
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