Homai Vyarawalla, ‘First Lady of the Lens’ Homai Vyarawalla (9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012)
Go to previous slide Go to next slide The first unfurling of the Indian flag at Red Fort by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on August 16,1947. Credit H.V. Archive/Alkazi Collection of Photography 1 of 5 Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first female photojournalist, who died on Sunday, chronicled India’s independence with a spirit that was unmatched by the following generations, in part because of changes in India itself. “Her images of Jawaharlal Nehru addressing a jubilant crowd in Delhi, and of the body of Mohandas K. Gandhi being prepared for cremation, give a vivid sense of the mood of a nation whose self-image was cast in a romantic epic mold,” Holland Cotter wrote in The New York Times in a 1997 review of a show in Queens, New York, that featured Ms. Vyarawalla’s work. “Much has happened since — sectarian violence, economic upheaval, the extended medical emergency of AIDS — to eat away at that initial tragedy-shadowed optimism,” Mr. Cotter wro...
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