Raghu Rai
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When Mother Teresa, the Indian nun of Albanian origin, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta on 7 October 1950, was canonized by Pope Francis in September 2016, he formally acknowledged what millions around the world had always held-she was a saint who walked the earth ministering to the poor, the unwanted and the terminally ill.
Raghu Rai, who photographed her for nearly five decades, from the early 1970s onwards, has taken some of the most iconic ...
A remarkable architectural movement had swept through their reign dotting the landscape of Mahoba, Kalinjar and Ajaygarh with palaces, tanks and temples. But it was at Khajuraho that the Chandella kings reached the zenith of their creativity.
Though its erotic sculptures overwhelm visitors, they account for just two per cent of the carvings, mostly in the Shiva temples. They embody the tantric philosophy of having to transmute sexual energy into pure ...
In Picturing Time, Raghu Rai, India s greatest living photographer, puts together the finest pictures he has taken over the course of a career that spans fifty years. His photographs of war, faith, monuments like the Taj Mahal, ordinary Indians, our greatest leaders, saints and charlatans, deserts and much else besides in black and white, and in colour, are imprinted on our memory. However, they have never been collected before in a single book. To add to our ...
After 26 years in which time he has been hailed as one of the most respected photorgraphers of India, Raghu Rai has ventured into political territory once more. In this stunning new volume he photographs two important Indian leaders, an outgoing PM, Manmohan Singh, and an incoming one, Narendra Modi. Both are photographed within the cacophony of their party meetings, but there is a silence at the centre. One is tinged by despair, the other by a sense of ...
For Emperor Shah Jahan who loved his Queen Mumtaz very deeply, having lost her at a youthful age, Taj Mahal as a mausoleum was an offering to his most beautiful beloved. When you walk in, those few hundred metres from the main gate, there is a breathless urgency to get there. Though built three hundred and fifty years ago when you stand on the platform facing the Taj glistening with the same freshness and array of natures colours in the inlay work, it is as if it ...
One of the oldest cities in the world, Varanasi has remained unchanged over the centuries. The prayers the pilgrims chant as they walk its sacred streets, and the hope of redemption they bring with them, are the same as they were hundreds of years ago.In this magnificent book, made up of images culled from over three decades of work, Raghu Rai captures more of the city's distinctive, timeless character than anyone else ever has. From its busy ghats to ...
Raghu Rai’s stupendous portraits capture the uniqueness of India and chart the evolution of portraiture in the photographic medium in the country. Empathy between photographer and subject is revealed in every image of The Indians. From princes in royal settings to village craftsmen outside a shopping mall in Delhi; from Mahatma Gandhi to Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama; from Satyajit Ray to Arundhati Roy; from Amitabh Bachchan to Shah Rukh Khan; and from ...
One of India’s finest photojournalists, Raghu Rai started shooting Mumbai nearly 40 years ago from 1970 onwards. Over the years, he captured important occasions, festivals, demonstrations and special moments from the everyday life of ordinary people. It was a varied and mixed experience of the rich, the famous, the ordinary and the commonplace.For Raghu Rai, Mumbai has been like a mini New York the business hub of an over crowded nation; a cultural melting ...
The Sikhs are culturally one of the richest communities of India. The Sikh faith emerged and spread in north India to combat the stifling practices of the Hindu caste system and went on to become an all-encompassing way of life. Tracing the history of this race from the inception of its religion by Guru Nanak, this book explains the turbulent history of the Sikhs, their faith in one God, their ten Gurus and the casteless fraternity of the Khalsa Panth. It ...
This lavish production of the finest black-and-white photographs taken by India's most distinguished photographer, Raghu Rai, proves once again that his is a mark at which all lensmen will shoot in vain. It is a silent demonstration, but an eloquent one, of what photography-and India-is all about.
"Raghu Rai is one of the foremost master photographers of our time and an artist of profound intelligence, spirituality, and compassion. He has held solo exhibitions in major cities throughout the world. His work is unfettered by the specifics of place or time. While his native India may provide the principal setting for his images, his subject is humanity on a universal scale. His photographs focus on the relationship of spirit and experience--they are, as ...