Raghubir Singh, Delhi
Rahman is a photographer, curator, designer, activist, and co-founder of SAHMAT, a Delhi-based collective of artists and scholars dedicated to promoting cultural pluralism and secularism in India. After studying physics and photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he went on to study graphic design at the Yale University School of Art. Working in both color and black-and-white, Rahman is known for his street photographs of India and his environmental portraits of artists and intellectuals. In this rebus-like portrait, Rahman's close friend and mentor, the photographer Raghubir Singh, poses before a painter’s market stall in New Delhi. The image offers a clever gloss on the changing status of their shared métier, hinting that the photographer will supplant the "painter artist" as a creator of "new art."
Artwork Details
- Title: Raghubir Singh, Delhi
- Artist: Ram Rahman (Indian, born 1955)
- Person in Photograph: Person in photograph Raghubir Singh (Indian, 1942–1999)
- Date: 1982
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Image: 15 1/4 × 18 3/4 in. (38.7 × 47.6 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Funds from various donors, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.184
- Rights and Reproduction: © Ram Rahman
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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