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Raghubir Singh’s photographs are in the perma-
nent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New
York, as well as other private collections, including
the National Museum of Photography, Film and
Television, Ilkley Community College, Bradford,
the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Mu-
seum of Art, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, and others.
Singh died of a heart attack in April 1999 in New
York City.

MonolinaBhattacharyya

Biography

Born October 1942; studied at Hindu University and self-
educated as a photographer. Met Henri Cartier-Bresson,
1966; moved to Paris, 1970; awarded the Padma Shri by
the Government of India, 1983; Fellow, National Mu-
seum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford,
England, 1985–1986. Died April 1999.

Selected Works

Farmer Dredging Dal Lake, Kashmir, India, 1980
Norning on achganga Chat, Benares, Utter Pradesh, 1985
Subhas Candra Bose Statue, Calcutta, West Bengal, 1986
Television Set, Chidambaram Festival, Tamil Nadu, 1993
Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, 1994
Sunday Market, Ahmedabad, India, 1997

Further Reading

Adams, Lorraine. ‘‘Raghubir Singh’s Window onto India.’’
Smithsonian(May 2003).
Chaudhury, Shoma.Prisms of Imagination, Raghubir Singh’s
Retrospective Showcases his Self-realised Vision-an India
in Living Colour. Outlookindia.com Magazine, February
8, 1999.
Chowdhury, Sujit. ‘‘A Photographer’s Palette.’’Sunday
Herald (Deccan Herald), Sunday August 17, 2003.
Chelminski, Rudolph and the editors of Time-Life Books;
photos by Raghubir Singh.Paris. Amsterdam: Time-
Life Books, 1977.

Richard, Paul.A Road-Tested Approach to Photography.

The Washington Post, Volume 11, March 23, 2003.

Smith, P.C. ‘‘The Colors of India: Raghubir Singh.’’Art in

America, March 2000.

Singh, Raghubir.Rajasthan, India’s Enchanted Land. New

York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1981.

———.Kashmir Garden of the Himalayas. New York:

Thames and Hudson, 1983.

———.Kerala, the Spice Coast of India. London and New

York: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

———.Calcutta, The Home and The Street. London and

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988.

———.Benares, Sacred City of India. London: Thames and

Hudson, 1987.

———.River of Color. London and New York: Phaidon,

1998.

———.Tamil Nadu. New York: Distributed Art Publish-

ers, 1996.

———.The Ganges. Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1992.

———.Bombay, Gateway of India. Millerton, New York:

Aperture,1994.

———.The Grand Trunk Road: a Passage Through India.

Millerton, New York: Aperture, 1995.

———.A Way into India. London and New York: Phai-

don, 2002.

AARON SISKIND

American

Aaron Siskind began as a socially committed, doc-
umentary photographer. He is best remembered,
however, as a pioneer of formal abstraction, a style

that he both adopted and promulgated from the

mid-1940s. This development was, according to

The Timesof London, ‘‘significant for the whole

future of art photography.’’ Siskind’s classic work

Raghubir Singh, Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, 1994.

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