Raghubir Singh

February 26, 2009 11:16 AM

Raghubir Singh.

Yes, the website is in flash. Suck it up, because his photographs are wonderful. Sadly he passed away in 1999. He was working in colour in the 70s, which was still very uncommon for fine art photography.

posted by chunking express (6 comments total)

Andre Kertesz.
posted by netbros at 12:05 PM on February 26

well.. its not just that its in flash, innit? the photos are 200px wide and a shitty resolution: what is the point of a portfolio site if not to see vivid photography?
posted by yonation at 3:04 PM on February 26

Does that make his photos less awesome? It's hard to find his stuff elsewhere online. And it's pretty amazing stuff. And I hadn't heard of him till today. Hence the post. Maybe if you email his estate they'll fix the site for you.
posted by chunking express at 3:36 PM on February 26

Wonderful pics, thanks for the post. He reminds me a bit of one of my faves, Fred Herzog, a Vancouver photographer who also used colour (particularly Kodachrome, which it looks like Singh likes, too) to do similar streetscape-type stuff.
posted by docgonzo at 4:40 PM on February 26

well, they are beautiful, but you already struck a defensive tone and i was remarking that yes, its an annoying website, therefore one cannot see that they are really that beautiful. so don't take it personally, eh.
posted by yonation at 6:55 PM on February 26

I stuck a defensive tone because I have yet to post a link to some photographers web site that doesn't include X comments about how "the site is in flash, what the fuck." It gets tired.
posted by chunking express at 6:37 AM on February 27