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Dayanita Singh: File Room

By Dayanita Singh (Photographer), Aveek Sen (Text by), Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen (Text by)
Hardcover
$45.00
By Dayanita Singh (Photographer), Aveek Sen (Text by), Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen (Text by)
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A new edition of Singh's acclaimed first foray into documenting the secret lives of archives

This is the long-awaited new edition of Dayanita Singh's (born 1961) File Room, her first book on archives, published by Steidl in 2013. Singh's images of archives and their custodians across India examine how memory is made and how history is narrated. Her photographs bring to light the paradoxes of archives: while impersonal in their classifications, each is the careful handwork of an individual ar...

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