Elephant in Mysore


The picture of an elephant in Mysore was taken by Joe Heydecker during one of his journeys in February 1957. Elephant leaders are presenting a white-headed state elephant of the Maharadja of Mysore to an audience of children (technique: black-and-white negative). Born as a son of a liberal family in 1916, Joe Heydecker was educated as a photographer. In 1941, Heydecker documented the inhumane conditions and the inconceivable misery of the Jewish population in the Warsaw Ghetto with a miniature camera. These photographs are painful testimonies of the National Socialist atrocities. After the Second World War, Heydecker worked as a photographer and journalist for several media and undertook various journeys, which he documented extensively. This particular picture was taken during a journey to India and Sri Lanka for the magazine “Deutsche Illustrierte” with the actresses Romy and Magda Schneider in 1957

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