Chess Players, Monsoon Floods, Benares, Uttar Pradesh

Raghubir Singh

1967, printed 1991 · Chromogenic print · Photographs

Born into an aristocratic family in Jaipur, India, Singh lived and worked in Paris, London, and New York, but his lifelong subject as a photographer was the vibrant culture and landscape of modern India. With its emphasis on visual surprise and spontaneity, Singh's work belongs to the tradition of small-format street photography pioneered by such artists as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank. Unlike many of his European counterparts, however, Singh worked exclusively in color, often composing his images with a graphic complexity akin to that of Mughal miniatures.

Artist

Raghubir Singh

Date

1967, printed 1991

Medium

Chromogenic print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1991