Title: Jagannatha Temple Thoroughfare
Food vendor selling sweets
Date : 1978
Location: Puri, Orissa, India
Repository: Bonnie G. MacDougall (original
photographs)
There is no
information of the creator. According to the description, this picture is taken
at the main thoroughfare near a temple in India. The part of the photograph
that caught my attention is the fact that the sales person is a boy and the
foods he is selling. The boy, who seems nine or ten years old, sits alone and
waits for customers. I am not sure what are the products, but the description
of the photo says they are sweets. I think they are dried fruits and donuts.
This photo shows the street foods of India at that time and child labor. There are
no other peddlers in the picture, but I can assume there should be a lot more
sales people around there.
The photographer is Bonnie G. MacDougall, which should have been clear from the metadata. Instead you are mislead by the name of the photographer being the same as the repository. This is a typical ArtStor problem. MacDougall is a faculty member at Cornell University where she specializes in South Asian architecture, landscape and culture. The way the picture is framed is important, and also the photographer's position - she seems to be above looking down on the boy from a height.
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