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Satish SHARMA
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1951 -bio:
Satish Sharma is an independent photographer, writer, cultural critic, and curator who has published and exhibited internationally. He has worked as a freelance photojournalist for leading Indian magazines and newspapers since 1975 and as documentary photographer for major international institutions like UNICEF.https://photomail.org/portfolio_category/satish-sharma/
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Satish Sharma photographer, on Rajiv Gandhi's Mr. Clean image, streets deconstruct a leader's image"How did you start working in this field?
I was coming across art spelled with a capital ‘F’ as in ‘Fine Art’. So I switched from that to journalism. I saw photography mostly from the perspective of text, not as an image which is purely about itself and about art. That was the first real take-home point: that photography is about text, writing with light. Now I write – but I write about photography. Because all these experiences have come together I can understand the cultural politics of photography, and the cultural space it inhabits. This is much more important for me than just what is in the frame."
A new lens Satish Sharma describes a new visual language for the streets of Southasia.
book: 'Streetchildren and Glamour'
Street Dreams: Contemporary Indian Studio Photographs from the Satish Sharma Collection
Val Williams, Anna Fox
Booth-Clibborn, 1997 - 112 pagina's, ISBN 186154071X, 9781861540713
"In the studios of India's rotiographers a collection of props and backgrounds make it possible for ordinary men and women to act out their fantasies. This book presents a selection of street photography that combines the imagined and the real Western stereotypes of India, and brings the reader face to face with a vibrant vernacular culture."
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