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Author : Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta

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by: Sunil Gupta
The first monograph on this important Indian photographer features selections from each of his major series, offering a comprehensive overview of Sunil Gupta's work to date. Arguably India's best-known working photographer, Gupta is also a well-known artist, curator and writer. For decades he has explored narratives of contemporary gay life in India and other parts of the world; tackled issues of gender and sexuality; and documented his own experiences living with AIDS. This volume chronicles Gupta's divergent series, which range from narrative portraits to fictional photo essays. Beautifully reproduced, these photos include his renowned series 'The Pre-Raphaelites'; heart-rending images of children living in an HIV-positive care center; 1970s street scenes from New York City's West Village; and his groundbreaking portraits of gay men, women and transgender individuals living in his native country and struggling against homophobic laws and culture. Subversive, whimsical, personal and political, Sunil Gupta's photographs have done much to raise awareness about-and overcome the taboos of-homosexual life throughout the modern world.

Click: Contemporary Photography in India

by: Sunil Gupta
The book is a bible on Indian contemporary photography with 80 photographers and more than 150 works

An Economy of Signs: Contemporary Indian Photography

by: Sunil Gupta

Delhi: Communities of Belonging

by: Sunil Gupta
Delhi offers a stunning series of more than 150 full-color documentary photographs and companion first-person texts, which together offer an unprecedented portrait of LGBTQ people’s lives in India today. Focusing on Delhi, noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh chronicle the halting emergence of networks of men and women living under the shadow of stigma and criminalized behavior—in a country where anti-sodomy laws dating back to the British Empire were recently struck down, only to be reaffirmed in a surging wave of homophobia. The photographs in this lavishly presented volume reflect the photographers’ celebrated capacity for entering into lives rarely seen. In Delhi, we are invited into the daily routines, work, homes, and intimate lives of subjects from different backgrounds—from urban professionals to day laborers. A visually arresting document in its own right, Delhi presents American readers with a starting point for understanding the profound struggles for recognition by India’s LGBTQ community. Delhi was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).
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