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Prabuddha, resurrected
Three years after his death, illustrious photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta’s legacy is brought to life by his wife and daughter. Benita Fernando dips into the flashback
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An exhibition that opened yesterday at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, showcases 90 monochrome works by one of India’s finest photographers. Prabuddha Dasgupta — A Journey was also the venue for the launch of a book of the late photographer’s images, writings and interviews. Call it what you want — a stage or sanctum, a retrospective or resurrection — the exhibition and book mean different things to different people.
Shot for a high-end fashion and furniture store, this image of Lakshmi Menon was among Prabuddha Dasgupta’s last before he passed away in August 2012. Pic/© Estate of Prabuddha Dasgupta
For the photographer, who passed away at 58, this is a homecoming; his father, sculptor Pradosh Das Gupta, was a curator at the NGMA for 13 years. For friends and contemporaries, this is a fitting tribute to a lensman who revolutionised fashion photography. For his wife, Tania, and daughters Aleeya and Amaaya, who have envisioned both the exhibition and the book, this is a sharing of the man they knew. The jou
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Life, camera & a stark world: A retrospective of Prabuddha Dasgupta's work
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Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art honours India's most exciting lensman, the late Prabuddha Dasgupta, with a retrospective of his works. Gargi Gupta comes out fascinated with his heady combination of art and fashion
All photographs courtesy National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi
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Mention Prabuddha Dasgupta and chances are that the few who recognise him will remember he was the photographer who shot the controversial Tuff-shoes ads with Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre in the buff and the risque Kamasutra ads with Pooja Bedi in the 1990s. But that's the general, layperson's view – to connoisseurs, Prabuddha, who died unexpectedly in 2012, was one of India's most exciting photographers, not just in the genre of fashion or glamour photography, but also as an artist for whom photography became a way of exploring new ways of seeing. It's heartening then that the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Delhi has mounted a very large exhibition of his works and is acquiring 100 of them – a significant distinction in a country
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