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“Gandhi shaving with a Gillette, Dandi, April 7, 1930.” Photo by Walter Bosshard (Fotostiftung Schweiz, WB_XXII_A0151.N)
A day after he illicitly picked up a handful of salt on the Dandi seashore in western India, a gesture that both got him the title of “lawbreaker,” and also catapulted him to global fame and visibility, and in the midst of leading a massive movement of civil disobedience against the world’s largest empire, M.K. Gandhi (aka Mahatma Gandhi) pauses to shave his face, with a Gillette razor no less, his act caught on camera by Swiss-German photographer Walter Bosshard.
Questions
If you did not have the caption to this photograph, would you have recognized the man featured in it as Gandhi?
Of all the photographs available of Gandhi—the most photographed Indian of his time—why do you think I chose this for our contemplation?
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