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When Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru first met Sternberger and his wife Ilse, it was while temporarily released from prison to visit his ill wife. They met at the "Arya Bhaven (House of the Aryans) a comfortable club for Indian students in London who had established it partly in self-defense against the attitude of many Britishers (sic), who hold against Indians a bias very similar to anti-Negro prejudice in the United States…"
Their sitting took place later under very different circumstances at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. There Nehru, as India's senior statesmen, was attending a meeting of the recently formed United Nations. He brought with him his daughter, Indira. The pair was unique in their direct effect on India.
Their conversation stood at times in stark contrast to their opulent surroundings. Nehru said, "Time is relative … the week I have spent in this country seems like many years … they make up for the many periods of my life when nothing happened and months shrank… Read More

Sternberger presents a careful composition in this portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru. The crisp white Khaddar cap and dark shadows offset each other. This photograph was used as Nehru's official government portrait in India and could be found in every school, government office, and embassy worldwide. It continues to provide the cover for Nehru's seminal Glimpses of World History, a collection of letters about the history of humankind written from prison.
Nehru was Mahatma Gandhi's mentee and designated successor. The first prime minister of India, he held the office for almost twenty years after helping the country gain independence. Sternberger first met Nehru in London when he was temporarily released from a British jail to visit his ill wife in Switzerland. Over the course of twenty-five years resisting British rule, Nehru spent a total of nine years in prison. There he wrote his famous letters to his daughter, Indira, eventually published as a book with Sternberger's portrait of Nehru on… Read More

Norman learned the art of photography from Alfred Stieglitz and became a highly skilled amateur. The two became lovers while Stieglitz was married to Georgia O'Keeffe.Gelatin silver print (16 x 20 in.). Archivally framed. Estate Edition, a limited edition of 20 copies, embossed and numbered.
$900 unframed; framed: $1,300