{"product_id":"dayanita-singh-lets-see-paperback","title":"Dayanita Singh: Let's See - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDayanita Singh\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA return to a time when Dayanita Singh (born 1961) did not yet consider herself a photographer, \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e is the probing remembrance of \"an eye I no longer have access to.\" Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive--80% of which remains unseen--exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten--hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother, Nony Singh, the musician, Zakir Hussain, and Mona Ahmed, whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography \u003ci\u003eMyself Mona Ahmed\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003cbr\u003eSingh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50 mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg, and with it she \"made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible,\" creating contact sheets of all her images, but realizing the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project. \"I call this book \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e,\" says Singh, \"because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we don't see, what only the camera sees....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766396813600,"sku":"9783969990087","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/59785aff2a20781b29476c21780bac96.jpg?v=1780291889","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dayanita-singh-lets-see-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}