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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - USA & Canada

Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs

The Museum of Fine Arts
1001 Bissonnet Street,
Houston, Texas, USA
Mar 03, 2018 To Jun 03, 2018


Detail: Raghubir Singh pushed the genre of street photography into a world of living color. Born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, to an aristocratic Indian family, Singh (1942–1999) lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York—but his eye was perpetually drawn back to his native India.

The retrospective Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs traces the full trajectory of the visionary photographer’s career through nearly 90 images, from his early work in the late 1960s to his last, unpublished projects of the late 1990s. After starting his career as a photojournalist, Singh soon began to pursue an artistic vision that stood, as he put it, “on the Ganges side of Modernism.”

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Raghubir Singh, Pavement Mirror Shop
Raghubir Singh, Pavement Mirror Shop
Howrah, West Bengal, India
1991
chromogenic print
© 2018 Succession Raghubir Singh

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