Photographs

Unidentified photo

Academic Facilities

This image was created by digitising a negative in the collection provided by Mr. C. Gourishankar's family. The negative was in an envelope marked 'Civil Structures', and no annotations were present. Use the links provided below to view the images created from the other negatives in the same envelope.

We know that Mr. Gourishankar was commissioned by Mr. Hans Wagner and the ICC (now IC&SR) to photo-document equipment from various laboratories in IIT Madras during the 1970s. This image was possibly shot then.

The image appears to be equipment used in Structural Engineering at IIT Madras during that time. A similar photograph (ID: 001/0348/IMG_106217) has also been found in the same album.

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Collection:

Gourishankar Collection

Album Name:

Civil Structures

Photograph ID:

001/0348/IMG_106216

Album ID:

0348

Photographer:

C. Gourishankar (1926-2002). A geologist by qualification, Gourishankar started his career as a photographer after working for many years with the Geological Survey of India. In everything that he did, Gourishankar strove to achieve flawlessness and impeccable quality. Thus his photography too was characterised by this drive for perfection. Every photograph that Gourishankar took was meticulously planned and shot, and printed with diligence and patience. Gourishankar carried out most of the official photography at IIT Madras in the 1960s.

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