{"AuthorName":"Tasveer Ghar","Description":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe align=\"middle\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" name=\"A Little Box of Lights\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-fOrE80NXA?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/ghml1.jpg\" style=\"float:right; height:262px; margin:10px; width:260px\" \/><\/strong><span style=\"color:#B22222\">December 8, 2022<\/span>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/partner\/tasveer-ghar\" style=\"text-align: center;\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD\"><strong>Three exhibits featuring Gautam Hemmady&#39;s matchbox labels launched on the&nbsp;<em>Google Arts and Culture<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\r\n<span style=\"color:#B22222\">March 20, 2024<\/span>: <a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/experiment\/ZwFnqVVEU-a7Eg\"><strong>Matchbox Momentos, an interactive game using Gautam&#39;s matchbox labels designed by digital artist Harshit Agarwal<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<strong>Gautam Hemmady<\/strong>,&nbsp;a Delhi-based architect, is an avid collector of all manner of popular ephemera, including most extensively and exhaustively, matchbox labels, which he has been archiving since 2012. His collection of matchbox labels comprises tens of thousands&nbsp;of unique pieces, gathered from various sources, Indian as well as global. Gautam allowed Tasveer Ghar to digitize a section of his enormous collection, besides giving us a wide-ranging interview about his encounters and adventures with matchbox labels. Besides a video documentary titled&nbsp;<em>The Little Box of Lights<\/em> featuring Gautam&#39;s interview that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7-fOrE80NXA\">may be seen on our site here<\/a>, we have hosted a selection of the digitized images, broadly classified into some popular themes:<br \/>\r\nhttps:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-in\/company-news\/shining-new-light-on-indias-matchbox-art\/<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-advt\">Advertisements<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-animals\">Animals<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-babies\">Babies<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-building\">Buildings<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-cinema\">Cinema of India<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-freedom\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"\/uploads\/images\/ghml2.png\" style=\"float:right; height:182px; margin-left:10px; margin-right:10px; opacity:0.9; width:300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"ghml-flora\">Flora of India<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-freedom\">Freedom Struggle<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-gods\">Gods and Mythology<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-machine\">Machines<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-men\">Men of India<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-mother\">Mother India<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-music\">Musical Instruments<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-swadeshi\">Swadeshi movement<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"ghml-symbols\">Symbols of India<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"GHML-transport\">Transport<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Funded by the Anneliese Maier Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, awarded to Sumathi Ramaswamy (2016-2021).<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Assistance in the digitization, formatting and annotation of Gautam Hemmady&rsquo;s collection was provided by Umang Sinha, Mariam Fatima and Sourav Roy. [10 Aug. 2021]<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Also see: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/intl\/en-in\/company-news\/shining-new-light-on-indias-matchbox-art\/\"><strong>Shining new light on India&#39;s matchbox art<\/strong><\/a> [Google blog]<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencehistory.org\/stories\/magazine\/matchmaking-in-colonial-india\/\"><strong>Matchmaking in Colonial India<\/strong><\/a> [Distillations Magazine, Science History Institute]<\/span><\/p>","pageBackColor":"#cc0000","topLineTextColor":"","title":"<p>A Little Box of Lights:<br \/>\r\nGautam Hemmady Collection of Matchbox Labels<\/p>","subTitle":"","footNotes":"","authorUrl":"tasveer-ghar","unsubscriber":1}