Raghubir Singh - late 70's colour images from India

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Beautiful !

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... I couldn't see it mentioned anywhere what camera he used.
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From the book Modernism on the Ganges : ... Like his role model (CB), Singh worked with handheld 35mm cameras - first Leica and later Nikon SLRs - with 28mm, 35mm and 50mm lenses ...
 

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The first photograph is amazing. It took me a while to understand how it was set up... He used such set-up in several of his photographs but less intruigung.

All portraits of with camera I found, show him with a Nikon SLR.
 

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AgX said:
The first photograph is amazing. It took me a while to understand how it was set up... He used such set-up in several of his photographs but less intruigung.

All portraits of with camera I found, show him with a Nikon SLR.
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Yes, I had to look and look at that first image before getting it. Nice images, and reminds me to shoot more color film when color is key to driving the image. I’m very surprised to read that color film wasn’t available in India until 1991. I was on the Arabian Pensula for much of the 1980’s where Kodak and Fuji were all over the place (I still have a Kodak plastic bag saying “May Allah Bless Your Pilgrimage” in English and Arabic). There was money to be made by business people selling film and development services, and with a market the size of India, well, hard to understand why the Indian Gov’t would embargo color film.
 

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Trask said:
I’m very surprised to read that color film wasn’t available in India until 1991.
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Not true. But instead India heavily taxed imported colour film with a bias to Orwo films.

 

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Nice to read Madras, I am come from a town near to Madras.
 

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I traveld India and Nepal in 89/90 - I remember buying chrome film in Neu-Delhi and Kathmandu. I'm not quite sure what brand it was, but in Kathmandu it was definitely Kodachrome 64 and K200.
 
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