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Dayanita Singh has long photographed the intriguing cloth bundles of India's archives, yet Time Measures marks the first time she has made portraits of them. Unlike its sister book Pothi…
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'I only came to photography because of the book. I don't make photos just to make photos-they're the blocks with which I build the book.' - Dayanita Singh
This book…
'At the heart of a working archive was a greater impossibility- a dogged but doomed attempt at mapping the chaos and brittleness of life itself.' - Aveek Sen
This is…
Dayanita Singh has been making small photo journals of her travels in India for some years now. Each book is made with a certain person in mind, either one she…
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In Dream Villa, Singh explores the ways in which the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something disquieting and enigmatic; the series of color photographs illustrated in this…
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Let’s See is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh’s earliest years as a photographer, a return to a time when she did not yet consider herself a photographer, the probing remembrance…
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This Steidl facsimile edition is scanned from Singh’s original maquette and reproduces all its imperfections and idiosyncrasies, including her penciled notes about the book’s construction–indications of the influential book-maker to…
Singh’s acclaimed 2001 collaborative visual novel of the life of an Indian eunuch, back in print
A mix of photobook, biography, autobiography and fiction, Myself Mona Ahmed–first published by Scalo…
When I call myself a book artist, it does not mean I only make books, but rather that I have a different relationship with photography. One that includes form and…
Dayanita Singh’s House of Love is a work of photographic fiction that takes the form of 13 short stories. The House of Love itself is the Taj Mahal, but the…
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A book about how life unfolds, and asks to be recorded and edited, along and off the axis of time.
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A clothbound documentation of Singh’s travels with India’s great classical musicians over six winters
In the early 1980s, with her very first camera in hand, Dayanita Singh (born 1961) traveled…
A photobook archive of archives, from rarely seen collections throughout India
The archive has long been an obsession for Dayanita Singh (born 1961)–both literal archives, treasuries of objects chosen with…
Dayanita Singh is the winner of the 2022 Hasselblad Award.
With this book, the internationally celebrated artist Dayanita Singh returns to her artistic beginnings. In the catalogue for the first…
This book celebrates Dayanita Singh as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award, considered the most prestigious international photography prize. Sea of Files highlights Singh’s consistent and unique engagement with…
A photographic archive of dance in its manifold forms, from Bollywood to classical dance
Ever since Museum of Chance (2015), and particularly in her award-winning Museum Bhavan (2017), Dayanita Singh…
Since 1984, Parkett has been an important source of literature on international contemporary art. Each biannual issue is a collaboration with four artists, in which their work is explored in…
The official catalog of Germany’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale festival of art.
