This turned out to be unsuccessful, but by this time, he had started to take photographs.
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India.
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India.
In Calcutta, Raghubir Singh met the historian R. P. Gupta, who later wrote for his first book Ganges (1974).
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In his early work Singh focused on the geographic and social anatomy of cities and regions of India.
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He was a self-taught photographer. A Way into India (PHOTOGRAPHY)
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This turned out to be unsuccessful, but by this time, he had started to take photographs.
Raghubir was in Calcutta photographing for his second book on the city — The Home and the Street.
Singh published over 14 books.
About Raghubir Singh.
His uniquely inside view of India made his images stand out amongst those by other world photographers who had shot in India.
He later moved to Hong Kong and started doing photo features for National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times..Singh belongs to a tradition of small-format street photography, pioneered by photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, whom he met in 1966 and observed for a week while the latter was working in Jaipur, and who, with Robert Frank, was to have a lasting impact of his work; however, unlike them, he chose to work in color, as for him this represented the intrinsic value of Indian aesthetics.
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His work on Bombay in the early 1990s marks a turning point in his stylistic development; at the contact of the metropolis his visual language acquires a new complexity.
As a schoolboy, he discovered Beautiful Jaipur, Cartier-Bresson's little-known book published in 1948, which inspired his interest in photography.Singh first shifted base to Calcutta to make a career in the tea industry, as had his elder brother before him.
Singh uses its doors and windshield to frame and divide his photographs. Calcutta. In the 1970s, Raghubir Singh moved to Paris and during three decades of rigorous training and exposure he carved a series of portfolios of colour photography on India.
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Once logged in, you can add biography in the databaseSingh first shifted base to Calcutta to make a career in the tea industry, as had his elder brother before him.
He was one of the first photographers to insist on the use of color at a time when color photography was not widely used.
Similarly, in a 1991 photograph from Bombay (now Mumbai), three mannequin figures …
Though his early work was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson's documentary-style photographs of India, he chose colour as his medium, responding to the vivid colours of India, and over time adapted western techniques to Indian aesthetics.
Deeply influenced as he was by modernism, he liberally took inspiration from Rajasthani miniatures as well as Mughal paintings, and Bengal, a place where he felt the fusion of western modernist ideas and vernacular Indian art took place for the first time, evident in practitioners of the Bengal school, and also the humanism of the filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who later became a close friend.
Raghubir Singh: Modernism on the Ganges
A Way into India (PHOTOGRAPHY)
Raghubir Singh.
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1986-1987
In Calcutta, Raghubir Singh met the historian R. P. Gupta, who later wrote for his first book Ganges (1974).
In some of his earliest pictures from Calcutta (now Kolkata), people on the street sink into visual arrangements, as do a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose and a mural featuring Vladimir Lenin.