Photo finish: 70 years later, photographer gets his due


	Photo finish: 70 years later, photographer gets his due
hitchhiker08
6-30-2008 1:48 AM
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india, pakistan, partition, mahatma gandhi, jinnah, liaquat ali khan, history, non-violence
hitchhiker08 says:
It was easy for the photograph to be attributed correctly to its rightful owner as in the Getty image, Liaquat Ali Khan has been cropped. Strangely, both Mahatma Gandhi & Liaquat Ali Khan were later assassinated, while Jinnah succumbed to tuberculosis and lung cancer...
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				<STRONG>People: </STRONG>Muhammad Ali Jinnah; Mahatma Gandhi
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this image and 70 years for it to be correctly attributed to the real
photographer. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms">For Kulwant
Roy is dead and for years, nobody knew who had shot the iconic
image.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms">last days of the Raj and a
newly-independent India, Roy left his photo collection to family friend Aditya
Arya, himself a photographer</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms">
 Flipping through
Peter Ruhe's book on Gandhi, I realized the same image was there, but credited
to Hulton Getty, with no mention of Roy."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms">He mentioned the incident to
a friend in International Herald Tribune</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms">issue with Getty</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms">they would be happy to credit
Roy if it could be verified that the image was indeed his</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssarticleshow/msid-3176311,prtpage-1.cms"><DIV>
 "That was
easy to do, especially because in the Getty image, Liaquat Ali Khan has been
cropped while I had the original," says Arya.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi&oldid=222160416" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi&oldid=222160416" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi&oldid=222160416"><SPAN>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi&oldid=222160416"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="" colspan="2"><A title="Gandhi studio 1931.jpg" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gandhi_studio_1931.jpg"><IMG width="225" height="302" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Gandhi_studio_1931.jpg/225px-Gandhi_studio_1931.jpg" alt="" /></A>
<DIV><SPAN>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, pictured in 1931</SPAN></DIV>
</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah&oldid=222600477" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah&oldid=222600477" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah&oldid=222600477"><H1 class="firstHeading"><SPAN><SPAN>Muhammad Ali Jinnah</SPAN></SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah&oldid=222600477"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><A title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Portrait_of_M._Al._Jinnah%2C_founder_of_Pakistan.jpeg"><IMG width="225" height="219" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Portrait_of_M._Al._Jinnah%2C_founder_of_Pakistan.jpeg/225px-Portrait_of_M._Al._Jinnah%2C_founder_of_Pakistan.jpeg" alt="Muhammad Ali Jinnah" /></A><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liaquat_Ali_Khan&oldid=222081372" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liaquat_Ali_Khan&oldid=222081372" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liaquat_Ali_Khan&oldid=222081372"><H1 class="firstHeading"><SPAN><SPAN>Liaquat Ali Khan</SPAN></SPAN></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liaquat_Ali_Khan&oldid=222081372"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><A title="Liaquat Ali Khan" class="image" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Liaquat_Ali_Khan.jpg"><IMG width="200" height="272" border="0" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Liaquat_Ali_Khan.jpg/200px-Liaquat_Ali_Khan.jpg" alt="Liaquat Ali Khan" /></A><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35DD71EB-C1D3-41A9-80F8-A1B7D7137CF9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>