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Luncheon Party, Raghu Rai





At Rajnish Ashram, Raghu Rai




Duststorm in Rajasthan, Raghu Rai


Trying to not be gushy but sometimes I slip.
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Posted on Mar. 16th, 2008 at 12:53 am | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]sajith

Whoa, excellent timing. Now I know what to do in Delhi on 18th. Thanks!
Posted on Mar. 16th, 2008 08:58 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]thechasingiamb

the NGMA is mad. call before you go.
Posted on Mar. 16th, 2008 02:46 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

"As much as Rai is troubled by ‘half-understood, poorly executed’ exhibitions of young photographers who have not yet come into their own, he is more upset by mature photographers who rest on their laurels and exhibit juvenilia."

Is that a little dig at his colleague Pablo Bartholomew showing his first attempts at photography? =D

Also, has he digitally touched up the photographs? A little more than a year ago, he showed photographs in Mumbai and at that time he was thrilled about having discovered Photoshop. The effect on his works wasn't as thrilling, unfortunately.
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 02:47 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]thechasingiamb

umm... er
Posted on Mar. 19th, 2008 11:36 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

i *liked* pablo bartholemew's 70s photos. photo of doped looking men in drainpipes labelled "hanging out with the nizamuddin crowd". pragati maidan at night. that kid on a bed in calcutta, young women in perfectly draped saris swaying to music at a delhi party. you don't get beautiful people of that sort any more. narcissistic maybe, but it was beautiful.

it's ram rahman who exhibited juvenilia, according to me. some of it recently shot. i mean whole walls of photos of old delhi streets - or the same street, more likely- the kind of pointless attempts to capture the sense of a crowd that you might make with your chhota digital camera as your rickshaw passes through...

tg
Posted on Mar. 30th, 2008 04:31 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]thechasingiamb

i liked a lot of pablo too only, as you say, because one feels one was born a couple of decades too late and because you miss the hungry, bearded men of one's youth. I liked the party one. bunch of people squashed in a room, most of them lying on a bed.
Posted on Apr. 3rd, 2008 12:11 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]bmukhtiar.blogspot.com

Don't blame you for gushing. Even when I didn't know anything of photography, Raghu Rai's pictures always grabbed my attention. God in the details!
Posted on Mar. 18th, 2008 07:00 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply