Scattering Incense
Photograph
Scattering Incense
Gandhi - In Fact & Film
1948
Gelatin silver print, printed April 1962
Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/16 in. (17.1 × 23.3 cm)
Paper: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0226
Inscriptions Typed on applied label on verso, BC: (Gandhi) 4/62 11) SCATTERING INCENSE on the sandalwood pyre, Gandhi's \ followers sang prayers as they lit the flame which was to burn \ for 14 hours. For the men in this historic photograph a guiding \ light had gone out of their lives. The funeral scene has been \ re-created with great authenticity in the film, "Seven Days to \ Rama." \ Credit: Cartier-Bresson © 1948 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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