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Nemai Ghosh
Affectionate Mother with Child

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Born in Kolkata in 1934, Ghosh is best known as the photo-biographer of legendary Indian film director Satyajit Ray. From 1967 to Ray’s death in 1992, Ghosh photographed every aspect of the maestro at work. His passion for theatre led to a collection of photographs that forms a pictorial history of theatre in Kolkata over the last four decades. He also has a phenomenal collection of photographs related with Bengali Cinema, such as Jukti Takko Gappo by Ritwik Ghatak, Calcutta 71 by Mrinal Sen, and Paar by Gautam Ghosh.

Ghosh is now chronicling subjects as diverse as major Indian painters and sculptors at work, Michelangelo Antonioni painting for an exhibition on his 94th birthday, and the tribal people of India, including the people of Kutch in Gujarat, Bastar in Chattisgarh, and Bonda Hills in Orissa.

Ghosh’s extensive archive of photographs on Satyajit Ray has been exhibited at the Cannes International Film Festival (1991), Paris (1991), Nantes (1991), Brussels (1993), Aix-en-Provence (1993), London International Film Festival (Nehru Centre 1993), Nandan (Kolkata 1993, 2002, 2003), New Delhi (Max Muller Bhavan 1993), France (1996, 1997, 2002), National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi 2003), Lalit Kala Academy (New Delhi 2003), Sakshi Gallery (Mumbai 2004), Dhaka and other places in Bangladesh (2006), and National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai 2006). His photographs form a part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Nord Pas-de-Calais, France; and the permanent gallery of St Xaviers College, Kolkata. His publications include Satyajit Ray at 70 with a forward by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991, Eiffel Editions, Belgium and Orient Longman, India); Dramatic Moments (2000, Seagull, India); Manikda(Reminiscences of Satyajit Ray: 2000, Bingsha Shatabdi, India; Bengali and French editions); and Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema with photographs by NemaiGhosh, drawings and scripts by Satyajit Ray and text and captions by Andrew Robinson (2005, IB Tauris, London). His book Faces of Indian Art Volume 1 was published in 2007 and Volumes 2 and 3 of the same book are forthcoming. -
Born in Kolkata in 1934, Ghosh is best known as the photo-biographer of legendary Indian film director Satyajit Ray. From 1967 to Ray’s death in 1992, Ghosh photographed every aspect of the maestro at work. His passion for theatre led to a collection of photographs that forms a pictorial history of theatre in Kolkata over the last four...

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