A unique photography exhibition, 'Ellipsis – Between the Word and Image ' was inaugurated at Jawahar Kala Kendra . As part of the inauguration ceremony, held at the Museum Galleries of JKK, a curatorial walk through with the curator, Rahaab Allana was organised. The curator took the audience through the galleries introducing them to the concept of Ellipsis.The curator explained that the two and a half month long exhibition bridges the concepts of past and present, rhetoric and fantasy. The works explore the understanding of aesthetics of photography and the relationship of photography to painting and words.Giles Tillotson, an expert on art and history said that it is for the first time that many of these works from the archives of India’s first established photographer-king, Sawai Ram Singh II of Jaipur is being displayed. The photographer king used photography not only as a tool to document but also to showcase the power of photography. The exhibition also presents numerous large prints of the city and a few self-portraits of the King thus creating a visual autobiography of his reign.

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