Dear friends of Tasveer Ghar
Meanwhile, we collaborated with Google Arts & Culture and the digital artist Harshit Agarwal to build an online interactive game using Gautam's matchbox labels digitized by Tasveer Ghar.
We are proud to announce that this game, Matchbox Mementos, has now been released on the Google platform, and we are already receiving some fabulous feedback. Here are some relevant links:
Shining new light on India's matchbox art (Google blog):
https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/shining-new-light-on-indias-matchbox-art/
Magic Mementos - Google Arts & Culture:
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/ZwFnqVVEU-a7Eg
A Little Box of Lights: Tasveer Ghar exhibits on Google Arts & Culture
Video documentary on Gautam Hemmady's collection:
The festival of Eid may still be a few months away, but as they say, “May everyday of your life be the day of Eid, and every night, the night of Divali.” Happy Eid!
Tasveer Ghar is excited to present a new visual essay about the circulation of images through the Eid greeting cards in India and Pakistan since the early 20th century until now.
“Eid Mubarak: Cross-cultural Image Exchange in Muslim South Asia”
By Yousuf Saeed
http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/117/
While Eid greeting cards have existed in most Muslim societies, this essay looks at the production and use of picture postcards of Eid in South Asia since their early days, to see how they emerged as popular vehicles of iconography across cultures via the postal networks, especially defying many stereotypes about Muslims and Islam as they are prevalent today.
The author, Yousuf Saeed, has been archiving and writing about South Asia’s Islamic popular culture since many years.
We hope that you have been enjoying the various visual essays appearing on Tasveer Ghar website so far. Very soon we are bringing out an edited and illustrated volume of selected essays from Tasveer Ghar with contributions from many well known authors from all over the world.
Looking forward to your visits to our website.
The Tasveer Ghar team
An Illustrated Lecture by Yousuf Saeed Yousuf Saeed, member of the HRA project "Satellites of Networks" will give an illustrated talk on "Popular Islam and Urban Spaces: The Nizamuddin Shrine in New Delhi".
The talk focuses on how the popular visuality around the shrine has changed over time in response to the changes brought about by urbanization, movement of pilgrims, new technology, and competition from the more orthodox tableeghi and Wahhabi ideologues in the vicinity? This work-in-progress is part of HRA project "Satellites of Networks" a research and documentation project tracing the transcultural flows between Europe and Asia in Muslim popular iconography at the Cluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context".
See a detailed report about this on Tasveer Ghar:
