Bombay: Gateway of India [Hardcover]

Raghubir Singh (Author), V. S. Naipaul (Designer)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 119 pages
• Publisher: Aperture Book; 1st edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0893815837
• ISBN-13: 978-0893815837
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,333,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant photography, brilliant narrative, December 22, 1999

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This review is from: Bombay: Gateway of India (Hardcover)

Raghubir Singh is arguably one of India's most well-known photographers and certainly one of the best I have seen in print. Most photographers will shy away from colour but Singh composes beautifully in this medium (and it wouldn't do Bombay justice to shoot it in black and white...) Above and beyong his talent with the lens, he has a very keen eye for the city, and captures the personality of the people who live there: laissez faire, slick, cosmopolitan. A typically Indian book - unabashed and bold - appropriately reflective of its subject matter. Naipaul is an odd choice for designing this work, given his relative distaste for India, but creates the perfect tension to accompany the photographs. In summary, Singh is in prime form in this book, doing what he does best: chronicling the people that define a city.