Everyday Life in Bangladesh
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Everyday Life in Bangladesh

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Photograph

Shahidul Alam

Maker
Bangladeshi, b. 1955

Everyday Life in Bangladesh

ca. 1990
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.2 × 24.1 cm (6 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Paper: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
2015.0133.0251
Inscriptions recto (applied printed label in black ink): 13
verso (handwritten in black ink): Ban/ Sh. Al/ 5 - 26
© Shahidul Alam
With no land for gazing cattle are transferred to non-shrimp areas.
(applied printed label in black ink): No grazing land. This once fertile land has been converted into a giant pond. "Dollars swim in the water."
Say the land-owners.
Copyright: Shahidul Alam / Drik Picture Library Ltd. Bangladesh
(applied printed label in gold): Dr. Shahidul Alam
PHOTOGRAPHER
58, Rd. 15A (New)
Dhanmondi Res. Area
Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
tel: Dhaka 328 332 (24 hours)
(applied printed label in gold): DRIK PICTURE LIBRARY LTD.
(DRIK ALOKCHITRA GRANTHAGAR LTD.)
58 Rd. 15A (New)
Dhanmondi Res. Area
Dhaka 1209, Bangladesh
tel: Dhaka 328 332 (24 hours)
(handwritten in pencil): Sub: Shrimp Farming
(applied label handwritten in pencil): Alam13
(handwritten in black ink): © 1990 SHAHIDUL ALAM
(handwritten circled in pencil): 7
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