Sepia sisters: A photograph from The Artful Pose collection.
"A melancholy young woman sits on the steps of a crumbling building, a pile of glistening fruit beside her. The folds of her white robe seem to glow. Do her garments symbolize purity? Is she a representation of the chaste goddess Diana? Instead of a toga, though, the snowy fabric swaddling her looks suspiciously like a sari—draped in the Gujarati style favored by the Parsi community in Mumbai."
Artforum, The Artful Pose - Early Studio Photography in Mumbai 1855 - 1940
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