Nirmal Gupta Photo Collection
Scope and Contents
This photo collection created by Nirmal Gupta dates from 1984 to late 1990s and features him at work in a range of studio and field settings. Several photos show him in his preferred role as a cinematographer, showing video equipment of the times and other members of the AV crew. Another set of photographs of him show him working on multi camera indoor shoots with live audiences, or with music / dance performances. A sequence of outdoor photographs show him with camera crew on a boat during a shoot, with video equipment of the era visible.
Dates
- Creation: 1984 to late 1990s
Creator
- Advanced Media Production. AMP (Processing Archivist, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for access unless mentioned in specific folders of the finding aid.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission for reproduction or distribution must be obtained in writing from the Archives at NCBS (archives@ncbs.res.in). The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use.
Biographical / Historical
Nirmal Gupta worked with All India Radio /Doordarshan at the Vigyan Bhavan Base production Cetre for SITE (Satellite Instructional Television Experiment) from 1975. Here he was part of a production team that made rural programmes from Bihar, MP and Rajasthan, which was then telecast from Ahmedabad via satellite. He joined CENDIT in 1978, and has worked for 47 years in Audio Visual media, before scaling down in the 2020s to a few jobs a year. He has worked in television maintenance and production in analog and digital technologies, and has in the last two decades, also worked with international TV channels.
Full Extent
19 Photographic Prints
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Series 1: Photographs Advanced Level Telecommunication Training center, Ghaziabad, 1980-81. Doordarshan serial on Indian Classical Dance and Music, 1996-97 Laxmi Studio Ghaziabad indoor shoot, 1990 Production Photos of “On River Ganga”, 1995 Adult Education Series called Sakshar Kyon? (Why be literate?), 1993.
Processing Information
Processed as part of NCBS PAST 2025-26. Grantee Name: Advanced Media Production, Grant Title: History of Media Technology from a Jungle of Meaning. For details, see https://archives.ncbs.res.in/past
- Title
- Nirmal Gupta Photo Collection
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives at NCBS Repository
National Centre for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bangalore Karnataka 560065 India
+9180 6717 6010
+9180 6717 6011
archives@ncbs.res.in
