Let's see / Dayanita Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dayanita Singh, photographer.

Contributor:

Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dayanita Singh--Archives.

Dayanita Singh.

Vernacular photography.

Black-and-white photography.

Photography, Artistic.

Genre:

Photobooks.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Let us see

Dayanita Singh : let's see

Place of Publication:

Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2022.

Summary:

Let's see is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer, a return to a time when she did not yet consider herself a photographer, the probing remembrance of "an eye I no longer have access to." Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive--80% of which remains unseen--exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten--hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother, Nony Singh, the musician, Zakir Hussain, and Mona Ahmed, whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography Myself Mona Ahmed (2001). Singh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50 mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg, and with it she "made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible," creating contact sheets of all her images, but realizing the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project.

Notes:

All illustrations.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dhiren H. Shah W'82 and Katherine M. Shah Fund.

ISBN:

9783969990087

3969990084

OCLC:

1314287570