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U.P. Police Allahabad Awaiting Gandhi's Floating Ashes by Henri Cartier Bresson — VisualArtsDB

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U.P. Police Allahabad Awaiting Gandhi's Floating Ashes

U.P. Police Allahabad Awaiting Gandhi's Floating Ashes

U.P. Police Allahabad Awaiting Gandhi's Floating Ashes

Henri Cartier Bresson

1948

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 22.9 × 34 cm (9 1/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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