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August 2007 Dear friends, Tasveer Ghar is supported by a three-year gift from Adarsh and Ranvir Trehan of the Trehan Foundation to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. With these start-up funds we have planned several exciting events over the course of the next three years. These activities are currently limited to Indian popular visual culture, but as and when we raise more funds, we hope to expand our reach to cover the other countries of the South Asian subcontinent. While much of the activities of digital archiving would take place in New Delhi, India, Tasveer Ghar currently has two other institutional nodes: 1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Tasveer Ghar Fellowships 2007: 1. Sujithkumar Parayil (Kerala) 2. Kamal Kumar Mishra (Delhi) 3. Vishal Rawlley (Mumbai) The period of their research/documentation starts in July 2007 and ends in December 2007, and their findings will result in virtual galleries on the Tasveer Ghar website – likely to be inaugurated in January 2008. In addition to the above fellowships, Tasveer Ghar has also granted shorter fellowships for the writing of virtual gallery visual essays to the following researchers. These grants will result in the collection of images to be used in a virtual gallery on the site. 2. Javed Masood (Delhi) 3. Inder Salim (Kashmir/Delhi) 4. Madhuja Mukherjee (Kolkata) 5. Peerzada Arshad Hamid (Kashmir) 6. Annapurna Garimella & Arun Kumar (Bangalore) Detailed synopsis and the progress of their work will soon be available on our website. Announcement: Invitation: Your contribution to Tasveer Ghar could either be one or two interesting images, or a series of related images that we can use for a thematic virtual gallery. A virtual gallery is basically a compilation of images (say between 8 and 15, or even more, if necessary) depicting a unique aspect of popular visual culture. Such images are generally accompanied by a text introduction and detailed captions that weave all the images into one coherent presentation spread over several interactive pages on the website. The individual images could either be scans of authentic artwork or photographs of scenarios (streets or homes) where such public art is displayed. A contributor can either send us hard copies of images or electronic versions (scanned in the prescribed format). Tasveer Ghar will not buy or own the image contributed by you. If you submit hard copies of any art work, we will return the same to you after digitizing it. The contributor does not have to design the gallery: this will be done by our website designer. But the contributor would have to provide the text and captions for the images (or any other details that may be necessary for the gallery). You can already see some featured virtual galleries on our website: 1. Welcome - Swagatam - Good Morning: Welcome posters of India, 2. New Year Greeting Cards with a Hindu Nationalist perspective, Our goal in publishing such virtual image essays is to promote conversation and scholarship around visual matters through the digital media, and to encourage discussion around images both well known and little recognized. As a small gift for welcoming you to our archive, we offer an interesting image from our popular art archive for your computer desktop. The image is not being attached here since some recipients may not like attachments, but it can be downloaded at the following link: Christiane Brosius |