Interview with Nature Morte Owner/Director Peter Nagy and New Delhi-based contemporary Art Collector Nitin Bhayana discussing contemporary South Asian photography.
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"When you look at Gauri Gill's images in her touring collection The Americans, it sometimes feels as if you're gazing into a mirror and seeing a reflection of yourself. Indeed, there will be few immigrants who do not see a piece of themselves, a bit of their story echoed in her photographs."
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"As we have all come to know, the South Asian diaspora in America is a wild and dynamic mix of tenacious traditionalism and postmodern sophistication that defies comparison with any other immigrant group..."
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"With the intention of entering the Cultural Center of Chicago to quickly grab a map and head north to the cliché landmark that is Navy Pier, I ended up staying much longer after noticing a photography exhibit of Gauri Gill..."
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"Gauri Gill's "The Americans" on display in the Michigan Avenue Galleries is a remarkable body of work. To fully grasp what it is that Gill attempts in this project we need to understand something about an earlier project..."
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"With a nod to Robert Frank's seminal 1955 book of the same title, Delhi-based photographer Gauri Gill's The Americans, on display from March 15th to the 29th at Delhi's Nature Morte Gallery, documents the anxieties, excesses and sprawling suburban dreams of South Asians living in the United States. "
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"Gauri Gill's photographs of the Indian diaspora in America evoke a shifting world. Writer MARINA BUDHOS explores its contours. What I love about photography is its blend of the documentary and the artful; how a good photograph can have the surprising, sudden candour of a short story..."
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"There is a quiet audaciousness in the title of Gauri Gill's first solo exhibition of photographs — The Americans (Bose Pacia, until March 8). In 1955, exactly a quarter of a century before Gill was born in Chandigarh, Robert Frank — a Swiss Jew in his early thirties, who had emigrated to the United States — won a Guggenheim fellowship to travel all over America taking photographs of its people and spaces..."
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"Chinese contemporary art, glinting and posturing, continues to hold the limelight, but for my money the work being made in India these days is the real deal, deep and rich..."
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"Displaying a rapidly altering sensibility Gauri's work has shifted from a toned down intimate and personal representations of the Indian NRI community based in USA ( a series she did during her stint in US ) towards a starker extraction of real-time Indian scenarios ranging from..."
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