Raghu Rai's India: Reflections In Colour

‘I believe that the photographer’s job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him so cleanly that if he were to put it back again, life and the world would continue to move without a stumble.’ This lavish production of the finest colour photographs taken by India’s most distinguished photographer, Raghu Rai, proves once again that his is a mark at which all lensmen will shoot in vain. It is a silent demonstration, but an eloquent one, of what photography—and India—is all about. ‘It is my personal opinion that he has an individual way of seeing things and reproducing them as images on bromide paper which is unsurpassed by any photo-journalist in the whole wide world’ —Norman Hall, The Times, London