Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.069944

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 11//27; handwritten: P. 16; handwritten: EN [circled]; handwritten: BS4; handwritten: Kashmir / Industry; handwritten: 24 [circled]; stamped: 2 1415; handwritten: 4; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / BSL [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; typed label: Paddy is the main crop of the Kashmir valley. The three pictures depict three / different operations. Occasionally the river goes on a rampage, its waters / churn into a muddy dark brown froth. Fields get flooded and crops destroyed / but the peasants are proverbially philosophical. They still go on singing / the praises of the river. They say, “The river gives and the river takes / away, and tomorrow there is hope again.”

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: KASHMIN / INDUSTRY-AGRICULTURE
Retouching: N