People from Jaipur - Raghubir Singh, Gayatri Devi, Irrfan Khan, Sawai Man Singh II, Asrani, Bhawani Singh, Sunil Sharma, Hasrat Jaipuri (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Raghubir Singh, Gayatri Devi, Irrfan Khan, Sawai Man Singh II, Asrani, Bhawani Singh, Sunil Sharma, Hasrat Jaipuri, Rajeev Khandelwal, Chandradhar Sharma Guleri, Kanwar Zorawar Singh, Om Shivpuri, Juhi Parmar, S.P. Sudrania, Toshi Sabri, Rakesh Sharma, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Kiran Rathod, Anshu Jain, Ila Arun, Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain, Philip Pank, Habib Miyan, Uday Singh Taunque, Sudha Shivpuri, Girdhari Lal Bhargava, Krishna Bhatt, Kala Nath Shastry, Pema Ram, Kripal Singh Shekhawat, Prince Jagat Singh, Jasdev Singh, Usha Rani Hooja, Kapil Nirmal, Daulat Mal Bhandari, Ikram Khan, Ram Narain Agarwal, B. Sohanlal, Satish Chandra Agrawal, Manju Mehta, Varsha Soni, Parbhu Dayal Yadav, Mohan Lal Gupta, Gangotri Bhandari, Shashi Sankhla, Ashok Parnami, Durga Lal, Kudrat Singh, Kali Charan Saraf, Khailshanker Durlabhji, Pinchoo Kapoor. Excerpt: Raghubir Singh (1942-1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India. He was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York and during his career worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Time. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form. 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. In time Singh was acknowledged with William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld as one of the finest photogra...