IRA COHEN'S PORTRAITS OF INDIA
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Ira Cohen
is a well known photographer, poet and and international traveler who has lived in New York, Amsterdam, Nepal, India and Morocco. His images have graced the covers of music albums from Jimi Hendrix to Bill Laswell, and magazines from Life to Avant Garde. He made the film Kings With Straw Mats, about the Kumbh Mela where many of these pictures were taken. WithPaul Bowles and Brion Gysin in Morocco, he produced an album of sufi trance music,Jilala.