Photo Collection

Note No 1

According to Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research.– Vol.14, No2, December 1990, PP. 230-231, Cartier-Bresson took at Pondicherry these photos:

23.04.1950

1) Playground, disciples, the Mother;

2) Ashram’s cottage industries;

3) Golconde;

4) Meditation house, the Mother giving blessings;

5) some fairly close-up shots of the Mother.

24.04.1950:

1) the Mother’s “balcony darshan”;

2) Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s darshan in Meditation house.

25.04.1950:

1) Sri Aurobindo (17 shots);

2) Anu Purani’s dancing;

3) the dining hall;

4) the Mother’s “Vegetable Darshan”;

5) some shots of the streets of Pondicherry in the afternoon;

6) the Mother playing tennis (evening);

7) Pavitra, Nolini Kanta Gupta, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya;

8) Playground, Mother’s evening class.