Of Ovals and other offices
Bill Clinton is making geometry news these days (oct 2003) drawing ovals and global circles around Iraq. 15 years ago when Reagan occupied that office there was this Star Wars…
Sikh and ye shall find.
Raghu Rai is a photographer of international importance who derives all his nourishment from the land that raised him. From his days at India Today and those remarkable, unforgettable black…
The state of the art photography in India
In ‘Secret Knowledge’ David Hockney proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Caravaggio and other sixteenth century painters used optical devices to draw spherical objects, perspective and detail, it is also…
ART – PORN photography
At what point can nude photography be considered art as opposed to pornography? Pornography in the pejorative is associated with explicit depictions of the sexual act. ‘Deliver me from writers…
Other Ways of Seeing
Why are we identical and why are we so different? The Genome project has given us incontrovertible proof today that genetically we are all identical and that we have a common…
Bombay – Mumbai
Picture Bombay - Landmarks of a New Generation is probably the only lyrical and honest photographic depiction of this city, it was part of an international effort by the Getty…
Art – emotional/intellectual
Is art an emotional experience or a rational one? Can art be both? Isn't it mysterious that we go to school and by that definition are 'taught' to think, no…
Myanmar
The arrival terminal at Myanmar’s Yangon airport ushers you with resplendent granite, gleaming, spotless floors and high ceilings, efficient people and the FEC. Automatically you get initiated along with the conversion…
Marrakech loves India
Morocco has always been rather high on my list of countries to visit. Albert Watson’s remarkable book Cyclops embellished with its stochastic screen trio tone reproductions has wonderful photographs of the exotic…
Clitoridectomy
Tits, Clits n Elephant Dicks might seem like a controversial title to an art exhibition, that it survived 8 days without event might have driven Sanjeev Kandekar and his simulacrum …