Raghubir Singh : God of Colour




The other day when I went for a trip to Photographer's Gallery, I saw a single photograph framed on a white wall. Colours, reflections, shapes and movement would be my first words to describe the photograph. It was a photograph that had such complex geometric details that you could feel your eyes scattering everywhere to gather every bit of information it held.
You can then, after a brief look catch a glimpse of the bustle of that area as people went by and an eerie blur of the photographer's reflection. Should I say, It looked like "dimensional doors", each door, a mirror that hung and reflected the street, almost fitting together while clearly being separated by the mirror's borders? Or should I explain it as a juxtaposition of colours, movements and shapes? 
 That photograph was take n by Raghubir Singh, a self taught Indian Photographer, who was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of colour photography at the time when colour photography was still a marginal art form.

It was asked, What do you see?



No comments:

Post a Comment