Public bus systems weave together the cities and backhills of India. Pictured here is a consummate open-air experience now being replaced by “all window” vehicles; the canvas sides seen here can be released to blunt the rain. Your choices include Ordinary, Fast Passenger, Super Fast and Super Express bus. The latter ones have drivers on unreasonable schedules, with a zest for speed, manhandling vast vehicles in tangled traffic the way a Formula One car zips thru a chicane
(Below is a photo of the original, shot in Tri-X Pan, printed in a good old fashioned dark room – this does not capture many nuances in the print image unfortunately.)
Abe Pachikara, Copyright 1996 (click for larger image)
Image size: 11x14. Includes: ~3” acid free matt and backing; steel black 16” x 20” frame; and ready to hang wire. Here is purchase info.
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