Nineteenth Century Photographs of India on Display at the San Francisco Legion of Honor

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, July 8, 2003: An exhibition of about 120 vintage photographs of India in the 19th century is on display at the San Francisco Legion of Honor from September 14, 2003 to February 15, 2004. The “Reverie and Reality, Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection,” includes the works of Linnaeus Tripe, Samuel Bourne, John Murray, and Lala Din Dayal. The subject matter ranges from famous architectural monuments to images of the natural landscape. The variety of humanity that inhabited this country during the time period is recorded in a series of photographs that range from scenes of daily life in villages to sumptuous and formal visits of foreign royalty. An awareness of the exotic is seen in photographs of elephants and lion hunts. “Reverie and Reality” is drawn from the significant collection of Dr. William Ehrenfeld of Tiburon, California. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue. Other aspects of Dr. Ehrenfeld’s collection have been seen in two previous scholarly exhibitions: Indian Miniatures from the Ehrenfeld Collection, on view in 1985 at the Legion of Honor, and Interaction of Cultures: Indian and Western Painting 1780-1910, the Ehrenfeld Collection, on view in 1998 at the de Young Museum.