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Colburn (Tara) photographs of India, Iran, and Nepal
LSC.0434
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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Tara Colburn photographs of India, Iran, and Nepal
Creator:
Colburn, Tara
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0434
Physical Description:
19.5 Linear Feet
(39 boxes, 22 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1993-2003
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source and date of receipt unknown.
Tara Glynn Colburn (né́e Tarasenka Pankiv) was born in 1925 in Zagreb, Croatia into an artistic family. After living in Germany,
then Paris into her early adult years, she moved to Los Angeles, Calif. She became a photographer later in her life and even
staged at least 6 exhibitions of her photographs in Europe and India. Colburn was also a staunch patron of opera and was a
founding board member of the Los Angeles Opera Company from its beginnings in 1986. After Colburn died in 2003, her son, Cyril
Wohrer, known as Chandrasekhar Acarya Das, took his mother's ashes to India where he put them, in their urn, into the Ganges
River near Myapur, world headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6673532
[Identification of item], Tara Colburn photographs of India, Iran, and Nepal (Collection 434). UCLA Library Special Collections,
Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Collection consists of photographs recording the daily life and family relationships among tribal peoples of India in some
of its least-known and most rarely photographed regions. The photos were taken in the 10-year course of Tara Colburn travels
while searching for her son who had joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
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