Raghubir Singh The Ganges (Paperback)

Informationen zum Autor Raghubir Singh was one of the 20th century's finest documentary photographers. Among his other works are Rajasthan! Kashmir! Kerala! Banaras and Calcutta. Klappentext India is not a place, it is an experience. And the Ganges is not a river, it is an aspect of the divine. Born and brought up in Rajasthan, Raghubir Singh felt the spell of the river, its destructive power, and its majesty. Although he lived for many years in the West, he returned to the river again and again. He saw its contradictions as part of a process of growth and change: naked sadhus and ancient rituals alongside electric crematoria and modern ports. This book brings to life Raghubir Singh's personal pilgrimage along the Ganges, from the Himalayas, where the river riscs among snows, through the villages of the Gangetic Plain, past Banaras and through Bihar, to the Bay of Bengal between India and Bangladesh. On the journey he captured the essence of the river's many different stages and moods, its strange and stunning beautym its ferocity during the monsoon, the intimate daily lives of the people who live along it, and its powerful religious significance, attested by the millions of Hindus who take part in the ageless pilgrimages and festivals along its banks. Zusammenfassung Raghubir Singh's personal pilgrimage along the Ganges has yielded a collection of fascinating and infinitely varied photographs! which show that what he notices with his mind he can convey to an amazing degree in a visual image.

Product details

• Authors: Raghubir Singh
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2003
• EAN: 9780500284100
• ISBN: 978-0-500-28410-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 270 mm x 240 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 940 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, TRAVEL / Pictorials, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, TRAVEL / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography