Saturday, March 12, 2011

What a coincidence!

A couple of Saturdays back, I headed to the island of Shiva in the Arabian Sea. Just as I was about to board the ferry to the Elephanta Caves, I snapped this photograph:


After returning to mainland Mumbai, I headed to the Museum to catch the Hoppe's exhibition that was on... to my utter suprise, I saw that Mr. Hoppe had clicked a very similar photograph about eight decades back!


Not that I can ever hope to hold a candle to Mr. EO Hoppe, a master of Black and White photography, but it was a super coincidence anyway!

Anyway, here's more on the exhibition:


Check out this link to see Hoppe's photographs of India: http://www.eohoppe.com/books_8.html