{"product_id":"dayanita-singh-lets-see-9783969990087","title":"Dayanita Singh: Let's See","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA return to a time when Dayanita Singh (born 1961) did not yet consider herself a photographer, \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e is the probing remembrance of \"an eye I no longer have access to.\" Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive--80% of which remains unseen--exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten--hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother, Nony Singh, the musician, Zakir Hussain, and Mona Ahmed, whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography \u003ci\u003eMyself Mona Ahmed\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003cbr\u003eSingh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50 mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg, and with it she \"made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible,\" creating contact sheets of all her images, but realizing the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project. \"I call this book \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e,\" says Singh, \"because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we don't see, what only the camera sees....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1079064\"\u003eDayanita Singh\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.80w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969990087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3969990084\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHO\"\u003ePhotography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHO011010\"\u003eIndividual Photographers | Artists' Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44530100306157,"sku":"9783969990087","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_39d9aa0d-a2a6-463c-b716-291a9f52c43c.jpg?v=1701402803","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/dayanita-singh-lets-see-9783969990087","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}