Everyday Lives · Permanent photograph record
Haircut on the Painted Steps
Varanasi, India · 2014
A haircut takes place on painted ghat steps, with the striped geometry and surrounding riverfront environment retained as part of the scene.
Photography by Brian Silver
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Everyday Care in Public Space
The riverfront steps are not only passages between city and water. They also become places where ordinary personal tasks occur in public view.
The photograph is kept wide enough to preserve the painted steps and surrounding figures, so the human interaction remains embedded in the physical environment rather than becoming an isolated close-up.
Archive record
Brian Silver Documentary Archive
India Documentary Archive → Varanasi → 2014
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A person tends another person’s hair on painted steps of the Varanasi ghats. Other figures and the repeated striped geometry of the steps remain visible within the wider environmental composition.
Identification
- Archive ID
- V-2014-512
- Creator
- Brian Silver
- Collection
- Varanasi 2014
- Place and year
- Varanasi, India · 2014
Technical
- Medium
- Digital photograph
- Camera
- Nikon D90
Evidence status
- Photographer
- Brian Silver(verified)
- Collection
- Varanasi 2014(verified)
- City
- Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India(verified)
- Visible activity
- Hair cutting or hair tending(visual)
Subjects
- Varanasi
- India
- Ghats
- Haircut
- Everyday life
- Personal care
- Painted steps
- Public space
- Documentary photography
Provenance
- Original documentary source retained in the archive.
- Controlled website presentation derivative maintained separately from the documentary source.
- The source-faithful Cloudinary presentation is the approved web version; rejected generated or adjusted experiments are not authorized for publication.
Image preparation
Source-faithful website presentation: no approved crop, object removal, generative reconstruction or presentation adjustment.
Verification still open
- Exact ghat/site
- Exact capture date
- Original filename and EXIF
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Brian Silver Documentary Archive
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Citation
Silver, Brian. Haircut on the Painted Steps. 2014. V-2014-512. Brian Silver Documentary Archive, Varanasi 2014.
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© Brian Silver. Publication, exhibition, educational, documentary and other reproduction uses require intended-use review.
High-resolution status: Available by request and intended-use review.