Brian Silver Documentary Archive
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Place
Maharashtra · India
How islands and harbour, colonial trade, industry, migration, cinema and finance produced one of the world’s great metropolitan regions.
City-level orientation: the map locates the place, not an individual photograph or camera position.
From the archive
From the archive
Photographs from the architectural archive, selected for this destination. Original camera references are preserved.













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History, faith, social context, colour and cultural traditions connected to Mumbai and the documentary record.