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Singh, Dayanita

 
9783869305424: File Room
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ISBN 10 : 3869305428 ISBN 13 : 9783869305424
Editeur : Steidl Verlag, 2013

Synopsis

Dayanita Singhs photos of archives and their custodians across India examine how memory is made and how history is narrated. These images bring to light the paradox of archives: they are impersonal in their classifications, yet each is the careful handiwork of an individual archivist, an unsung keeper of history whose decisions generate the sources of much of our knowledge. Archives are vessels of orthodox fact but can also be the home of neglected details and forgotten documents than can unfix the status quo. As the pace of change in contemporary India accelerates and Indians turn from the past and fix their gaze on the future, what will become of the archive? Singh prompts us to imagine archives as not merely documents of dusty scholarship but as monuments of knowledge, beautiful in their unkempt order. Dayanita Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961 and studied at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and the International Center of Photography in New York. Singh has exhibited at institutions including the Serpentine Gallery in London and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Handcrafting books is central to her practice. Singhs books at Steidl include Privacy (2004), Go Away Closer (2007), Sent a Letter (2008) and Dream Villa (2010).

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Dayanita Singhs photos of archives and their custodians across India examine how memory is made and how history is narrated. These images bring to light the paradox of archives: they are impersonal in their classifications, yet each is the careful handiwork of an individual archivist, an unsung keeper of history whose decisions generate the sources of much of our knowledge. Archives are vessels of orthodox fact but can also be the home of neglected details and forgotten documents than can unfix the status quo. As the pace of change in contemporary India accelerates and Indians turn from the past and fix their gaze on the future, what will become of the archive? Singh prompts us to imagine archives as not merely documents of dusty scholarship but as monuments of knowledge, beautiful in their unkempt order. Dayanita Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961 and studied at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and the International Center of Photography in New York. Singh has exhibited at institutions including the Serpentine Gallery in London and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Handcrafting books is central to her practice. Singhs books at Steidl include Privacy (2004), Go Away Closer (2007), Sent a Letter (2008) and Dream Villa (2010).

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Éditeur
Steidl Verlag
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3869305428
ISBN 13 
9783869305424
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
88
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  3969991846 ISBN 13 :  9783969991848
Editeur : Steidl Verlag, 2026
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