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A historic, original 1942 photograph from Louis Fischer (1896-1970) sent to his wife\'s mother, Minna Mark. This is the only known signed copy of the photo.
It is inscribed with the following in handwriting:
[Front]To Minnafrom LouisFeb. 1948[Back]Louis Fischer with Mahatma Gandhi 1948
From the private possession of Minna Mark, New York.
\"Mahatma Gandhi and his wife Kasturba after having finished their breakfast talking to journalist Louis Fischer from USA at Sevagram Ashram Wardha Maharashtra India.\"
This photo was used as the cover forthe May 1949 issue ofNew Outlook(Vol. 2, No. 4), published by the Los Angeles-based organization New Century Foundation. The issue contained a cover story titled \"I Talked with Gandhi,\" which features an interview of the journalist Louis Fischer by television reporter J. Frank Burke. Fischer had met Gandhi in 1942, during a visit to India, and published a book titledGandhi and Stalinin 1947.
Louis Fischer was a teacher, lecturer, foreign correspondent, writer, and biographer. Fischer was born in Philadelphia in 1896; he taught school there in 1917 and 1918, but left to pursue a career as a foreign correspondent. Fischer became an expert on the Soviet Union, and wrote a biography of Lenin, published in 1964. An admirer and a personal acquaintance of Mahatma Gandhi (1969-1948), Fischer wrote a biography of India\'s political and religious leader,The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950). Fischer held positions as a research associate and visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1961 until the time of his death in 1970.
