Raghubir Singh »
Modernism on the Ganges
Exhibition: 11 Oct 2017 – 2 Jan 2018
Wed 11 Oct
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Breuer
945 Madison Avenue
NY 10028 New York
Sun-Thu 10-17:30, Fri, Sat 10-21
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Sun-Thu 10-17:30, Fri, Sat 10-21
The exhibition will trace the full trajectory of the color street photography pioneer’s career from his early work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s through his last unpublished projects of the late 1990s. Using a handheld camera and color slide film, Singh recorded India’s dense milieu in complex frieze-like compositions, teeming with incident, fractured by reflections, and pulsating with opulent color. He embraced color as part of a continuous Indian aesthetic tradition that reaches back to the miniature paintings of the Mughal period, while being also deeply influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson (whom he met in Jaipur in 1966), Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and American street photographers such as William Gedney and Lee Friedlander.