Tasveer Ghar

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The "House of Pictures" is an image repository together with the scholarship to help understand and curate them. Supported by three major universities and important collectors of these art forms, it features regular new essays by experts in India, Europe and the US.

In its own words, Tasveer Ghar is "A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture. Tasveer Ghar is a trans-national virtual “home” for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia’s exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art."

There is nothing quite like it online, and the essays and material available have grown consistently. Many pieces are excellent and full of new information. The site does tend towards the scholarly. Slide shows or enhanced displays of the images that go along with the essays would be also be nice.

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