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When I started to live in the graveyard, my own blood family thought I was crazy and admitted me to the mental asylum. I came here because I could not bear the false glamor of city life. I hated the pretense that people put on, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"
Dayanita Singh1998, printed 2008
- Attribution
- Dayanita Singh Indian, born 1961
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Physical dimensions
- 30.5 × 45.7 cm (12 × 18 in., image); 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in., paper)
- Credit line
- Photography Associates and Contemporary Art Discretionary Funds
CATALOGUE RECORD
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Source rights statement: © 1996-2003 Dayanita Singh.
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