The Indians: Portraits from My Album by Raghu Rai - 2010

Penguin Books India, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. New. 15 X 23 cm. Empathy between photographer and subject is revealed in every image of The Indians. From princes in royal settings to village craftsmen outside a shopping mall in Delhi; from Mahatma Gandhi to Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama; from Satyajit Ray to Arundhati Roy; from Amitabh Bachchan to Shah Rukh Khan; and from formal family photographs to an obscure artist’s studio-Raghu Rai brings them all together in this portrait of a nation. Divided into two sections, the first is a selection of images by earlier photographers from nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India, including Raja Deen Dayal, Bourne and Shepherd, and Johnston and Hoffman, which have been collected by Rai over the years. The second is a celebration of Raghu Rai’s unique engagement with the lens and a wide cross-section of the Indian people for over forty years. A compelling record of the ambitions and aspirations a people, The Indians captures the uniqueness of a nation as much as it charts the evolution of portraiture in the photographic medium in India. Printed Pages: 160. Indians: Portraits from My AlbumRaghu Rai9780670084692