Stamped in black ink, verso, center: [horizontal line] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [horizontal line] / DATE / [horizontal line] / TITLE / [horizontal line] / PRINT NUMBER / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN / PERMISSION FROM / [horizontal line] / WENDY EWALD [outlined in rectangle] Inscribed, dated, and signed in pencil, verso, center, on horizontal lines in stamp: Wendy Ewald / 1989-1990 / Tidi, Harijan (Untouchable caste) / Wendy Ewald Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: WE088
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Tidi is a member of India’s “untouchable” caste, its members caught in a system that, although officially illegal, deems them impure and less than human. Wendy Ewald enlists Tidi and other sitters into the creative process by encouraging them to draw or write on the image.
