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Singh, Raghubir
(1942-1999)After Crossing the Luni River, Barmer, Rajasthan

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Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

After Crossing the Luni River, Barmer, Rajasthan. 1975. Dye transfer print, printed circa 1985. 24,4 x 37,2 cm (44,5 x 55,4 cm). Unsigned, with printer's stamp and signed by the printer in pencil on the verso.

Stemming from an aristocratic Rajput family in Jaipur, Raghubir Singh first encountered photography as a student when he discovered Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Beautiful Jaipur (1948). The book ignited a lifelong passion, inspiring a vivid and expansive body of work that captures the complexities of Indian life and landscape. Singh is now recognized as a pioneer of color photography, standing alongside William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, and Joel Meyerowitz. He published over fourteen books on India and received numerous international honors. A print of this image is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. – A fine print in excellent condition.