the Other Way of Seeing: 'The Other Way of Seeing': Jyothi BHATT

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Jyothi BHATT

dates:

12/03/1934 -

bio:

"Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt, better known as Jyoti Bhatt, is an Indian artist best known for his modernist work in painting and printmaking and also his photographic documentation of rural Indian culture. He studied painting under N. S. Bendre and K.G. Subramanyan at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University (M.S.U.), Baroda. Later he studied fresco and mural painting at Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan, and in the early 1960s went on to study at the Academia di Belle Arti in Naples, Italy, as well the Pratt Institute in New York. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2019 and elected as a Fellow of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 2022."

Recognition:

A top prize, World Photo Contest, at Fotokina, Germany. (1978)
Grand Prix, 13th Annual Photo contest for Asia and Pacific, UNESCO, Japan. (1989)
President's Gold Plaque and National Award, 1956.
First Prize for the postal stamps design for the 25th Anniversary of Independence of India.
Bronze Medal, at Nikon world Photo Contest. Japan.
Padma Shri (2019)
Dhirubhai Thakar Savyasachi Saraswat Award (2020)
Fellowship of Lalit Kala Akademi (2022)

Wikipedia

links:

www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jyoti-bhatt-21243

www.saffronart.com/artists/jyoti-bhatt

Jyotibhai, as Jyoti Bhatt is fondly called, is one of the founder members of the Center of Photography, Baroda (? no further information)

Asian Art Archive, photograph of From left to right: Raghav Kaneria, Raghu Rai, and Kishor Parekh. Digitized from the archive of Jyothi Bhatt

Asian Art Archive, photograph of From left to right: Raghav Kaneria, Raghu Rai, and Kishor Parekh. Digitized from the archive of Jyothi Bhatt

From left to right: Raghav Kaneria, Raghu Rai, and Kishor Parekh. Digitized from the archive of Jyothi Bhatt
Here is an extensive archive on Jyothi BHATT: Asian Art Archive