Mary Ellen Mark made these photographs over six weeks in Falkland Road, a red-light district in Mumbai. Highlighting the dehumanising conditions many of these women lived in with empathy and nuance, this series helped secure her reputation as one of the most important social documentary photographers of the late twentieth century.

First edition; (277 x 254 mm, 11 x 10 in); colour photographs, minor toning to edges; starting at head, navy endpapers, navy cloth-covered boards, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in maroon, bronze and black, light toning to verso, minor wear to extremities, nick to lower panel bottom edge, a very good copy; 112pp.

The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present pp324-5.