SRINAGAR, April 11: Rare photo prints of Kashmir life taken almost 60 years ago by Henri Cartier-Bresson were destroyed in a fire that engulfed a tourist guest house in the held state on Wednesday, officials said. The four black and white original prints, taken when the French photographer toured India in 1948 and given to the tourism office, were housed in a building for passengers awaiting the launch of the bus service to Muzaffarabad.
Among the pictures was a touching image of veiled women praying against a backdrop of cloud-draped mountains in Srinagar.
Other lost photographs include people worshipping in Hazratbal mosque.—AFP
