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Raghubir Singh, ace lensman, dies in NY

Raghubir Singh, one of India's most distinguished photographers, died in New York last night after a heart attack.

Singh, 56, is survived by his wife, the French photographer Anne de Henning and daughter Devika Singh who live in Paris.

Born in 1942, Singh became famous early in his career as a photojournalist, doing features for Life magazine. Awarded the Padma Shri, his first two books of colour photographs, Calcutta and Ganges recieved world-wide acclaim.

Highly regarded in the art photography circles around the world, Singh's photographs are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institute in the United States.

His most recent book, a retrospective, The River of Colour, was published this year. This accompanied a huge exhibition which opened in the famous Art Institute of Chicago and shown at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi and Bombay this February and March.

In the 'seventies, Singh moved to Paris and developed an international reputation as a colour photographer, producing a series of books on India over three decades: Rajasthan, Kashmir, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Bombay and new versions of Calcutta and the Ganga.

For over two decades, Raghubir Singh photographed in India for the National Geographic.

He will be cremated in New York later this week. There will be a memorial gathering at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi on April 22.

UNI

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