Deepak Puri, former general manager of the Time-Life News Service's South Asia bureau and its iconic photo-editor for over 30 years, is an enigmatic personality. Representing the heart of Time Asia tor a whole host of people, he was the wizard who made.
In the middle of the 20th century, magazines distinguished themselves from other print media forms, by becoming a major platform for a particular brand of photojournalism. While newspapers had until then mainly used images in a utilitarian fashion, the impossible real — whether it was cajoling airline illustrative of a given context, these magazines created officials to issue tickets for pre-booked flights or the structure of photo-essays that produced narratives arranging tor unscheduled flights in conftlict-ridden through the reading of the photographs in themselves, locations — ensuring that the world saw the work of many photographic geniuses.
Famed for both his miraculous abilities and warmth, Deepak Puri’s collection of photographs, one of the most important archives of 20th century journalism in the country, includes the work of some of the best practitioners of the documentary aesthetic and is a sign of both friendship and gratitude to a true legend who enabled their work and touched their lives.
Culled from the larger collection, now bequeathed to the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP Bangalore), this selection of thirty photographers, showcases a range of photographs made significantly momentous by both their content and style, and highlights the wealth of the world that the best of photojournalism brings to us. and built a market tor them. Many of them, such as the famed, popular and pioneering Life, used high-quality inks and glossy paper to produce clearer images, and specifically credited their photographers, leading to many magazine photographers becoming instantly recognizable names and achieving near-celebrity status.
This exhibition, that includes many internationally acclaimed and seminal photojournalists therefore, pays tribute not only to their fine work, but also the legacies of this form of image making and publication, the importance of forums such as the Time-Life empire, and finally, the people and processes that helped enable it all.