Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel

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Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel
Meals are Good Medicine: man raises himself up on his bed in "Home for the Dying Destitute" in downtown Calcutta, India. Food is so rare in famine-struck India that some patients recover just through regular eating and leave the home, started 5 years ago when government gave Catholic nun an old Hindu pilgrim's hostel
Artist/Maker (German, 1933 – 2012)
Date1967
MediumVintage Associated Press wirephoto
DimensionsImage: 8 11/16 × 7 in. (22 × 17.8 cm) Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 3/16 in. (26.3 × 20.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.198
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Markings Verso, upper center (stamp, purple ink): [upside-down] "AUG 29 1967 / AUG 29 1967"
Inscribed Recto, lower center (blue ink): circle drawn around "India" in lower margin typed portion of image
Verso, upper left (pencil): "HF-IND-07"
Verso, upper left (pencil): "2500-"
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The parish priest Ramonet: "I left for the Ile de Sein with a book on Gurdjieff that was supposed to get me back into shape. I barely looked at it. Thanks to Felix Guilcher, a real, lyrical and discreet hero, a rare friend discovered over there, to a Parish Priest, and to all the islanders, more islander than Breton, I soon felt quite at home, something quite unexpected, indeed inconceivable. Happy and calm, I was protected from the distant continent by a superb and pitiless sea. On Sein, I finally told myself "they'll never get me!". I'll never be able to repay my debt to the Sein Islanders for what they gave me
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Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
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Date: 1966
Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Object number: 2023.12.196
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Medium: Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
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Bill Witt
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