Halima dancing to the radio in Urma's old home, with Sheila looking on, Lunkaransar

Halima dancing to the radio in Urma's old home, with Sheila looking on, Lunkaransar

Photograph

Gauri Gill

Maker
Indian, b. 1970

Halima dancing to the radio in Urma's old home, with Sheila looking on, Lunkaransar

From Notes from the Desert


1999–ongoing
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 7/16 × 11 in. (18.9 × 28 cm)
Paper: 9 7/16 × 12 in. (23.9 × 30.5 cm)
Gift of the FiftyCrows Foundation, 2015
2015.0133.0881
DescriptionTwo girls in a bedroom, one dancing, one sitting on a bed holding a baby.

This work print is part of the museum's archival holdings from the FiftyCrows Foundation.
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink on applied label verso BRC: © GAURI GILL 18 LUNKARANSAR 2000 \ HALIMA DANCING TO THE RADIO IN URMA'S \ OLD HUT THAT HAD PHOTOGRAPHS OR POSTERS OF \ ALL THE BOLLYWOOD STARS ON ITS WALLS
Inscribed in pencil on applied label, verso BR: Gill 18
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