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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty-Seven: How using words in pictures can expand meaning > Hotel Ganges, Varanasi, India, 2008
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30-MAR-2008

Hotel Ganges, Varanasi, India, 2008

Varanasi, like all Indian cities, offers an abundance of hand-lettered signs featuring oddly spelled words. (The Hotel Ganges must be located somewhere above the tangle of wires in this photograph.)

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Phil Douglis04-May-2008 20:18
Thanks for noting the impotence of the single light bulb here -- hardly a "mordern facility." This image is rich in incongruity in a number of ways -- the garbled spelling, the lone light bulb, the overhead snarl of wiring, the two arrows -- each pointing in another direction. Cultures caught in the midst of great changes are usually rich in such contradictions.
Tim May04-May-2008 19:04
Talk about incongruity! Here we are being told that the hotel has all the "mordern" stuff - yet a bare light bulb stands above it. I love this kind of shot.
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