Dayanita Singh
(1961)
Gandhi`s Room, Anand Bhavan, Allahabad
Dayanita Singh is a photographer renowned for her elegant portraits and quiet interiors. Depicted mostly in black and white, her images capture various aspect of life, ranging from the mundane daily activities of work and rest, to the more elaborate commemorations of life and death. Moving away from the people within her frame, Singh, more recently, has begun to focus on the physical space which surrounds them.
"Dayanita's work is far...
Dayanita Singh is a photographer renowned for her elegant portraits and quiet interiors. Depicted mostly in black and white, her images capture various aspect of life, ranging from the mundane daily activities of work and rest, to the more elaborate commemorations of life and death. Moving away from the people within her frame, Singh, more recently, has begun to focus on the physical space which surrounds them.
"Dayanita's work is far from straight forward documentary, neither is it a pictorial catalogue of India's rich and famous. More specifically her family portraits would locate her in the line of Diane Arbus or even Nan Goldin. I would argue that such comparisons are simplistic and Dayanita's own development will render them redundant. Dayanita's particular quality is the enigmatic mix of ease and tension that she seems to draw out of her subject, even as she fixes them with a degree of informed objectivity that approximates the documentary style. Yet it is in the absent self that suggests that she is somehow herself within each frame…" (Gayatri Sinha, "Documentation of Life", The Hindu, November 30, 2003).
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WINTER AUCTION 2008
10-11 DECEMBER 2008
Estimate
Rs 4,00,000 - 6,00,000
$8,335 - 12,500
Winning Bid
Rs 7,03,800
$14,663
(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)
ARTWORK DETAILS
Dayanita Singh
Gandhi`s Room, Anand Bhavan, Allahabad
2000
Silver gelatin print mounted on aluminum
39 x 39.5 in (99.1 x 100.3 cm)
This is first from a limited edition of seven
EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED:
Freedom - 60 Years after Indian Independence, Center of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata, 2007
EXHIBITED:
Beds and Chairs, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2007
Privacy, National Galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2003
PUBLISHED:
Sent a Letter - Allahabad, Steidl Publishers, Gottingen, 2007
Category: Photography
Style: Figurative
ARTWORK SIZE:
Height of Figure: 6'