Beyond The Window
Sathya Saran 27 May 2021, Last Updated at 10:55 pm outlookindia.com 2021-05-27T22:55:29+05:30
James Stewart looked out from the wheelchair he was confined to and witnessed a murder, in Alfred Hitchcock’s fine thriller
Rear Window. Calcutta-based Arun Ganguly saw beauty instead. Celebrating the fact that he was now able to walk around after a long stretch of being confined to his bed, the octogenarian who had been in charge of creative photography at the Clarion ad agency in the 1970s, and taught photography as a freelance photgrapher of international repute, turned to his art again. Thanks to the flooding of morning sunlight that his room enjoyed, Ganguly found images worthy of being recorded. The gulmohar tree outside the window, “host to woodpeckers and kingfishers and flocks of barblers and mynahs”, was another irresistible spur to his creative drive. As was the quiet, undisturbed expanse of garden and courtyard surrounding hi