Raghubir singh prints
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Raghubir Singh was an Indian photographer who was born in 1942. Their work is currently being shown at Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum Ludwig, Cologne have featured Raghubir Singh's work in the past.Raghubir Singh's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 750 USD to 18,750 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 18,750 USD for TWO WOMEN COLLECTING LOTUS LEAVES FOR CATTLE FODDER, DAL LAKE, KASHMIR, INDIA, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2018. Raghubir Singh has been featured in articles for The Hindu, Canadian Art and Toronto Star. The most recent article is Shared Space: The New Era (1987-2010): Photographs from the Bank of America Collection written for ArtDaily in May 2023. The artist died in 1999.
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Raghubir Singh: Modernism on the Ganges
Fineman, Mia, with Amit Chadhuri, Shanay Jhaveri, and Partha Mitter
2017
176 pages
134 illustrations
This title is out of print.
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Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs
Exhibition Overview
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was a pioneer of color street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999 at age 56. Born into an aristocratic family in Rajasthan, he lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York—but his eye was perpetually drawn back to his native India. This retrospective exhibition situates Singh's photographic work at the intersection of Western modernism and traditional South Asian modes of picturing the world. It features 85 photographs by Singh in counterpoint with works by his contemporaries—friends, collaborators, fellow travelers—as well as examples of the Indian court painting styles that inspired him.
The exhibition traces the full trajectory of Singh's career from his early work as a photojournalist in the late 1960s through his last unpublished projects of the late 1990s. Using a handheld camera and color slide film, he recorded India's dense milieu in complex frieze-like compositions teeming with incident