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Product Description
Amazon.com Review
Captured over a 15-year period, Xavier Zimbardo`s India Holy Song records the exquisitely color-filled experience that pervades everyday life in India. The workaday environment of a textile-dyeing factory becomes a frenzy of whooshing fabric like a moment out of a Martha Graham performance. An expansive hillside landscape shows a mythically large tree dwarfing a man in the grassy field. Cows and dogs traverse the city streets. Each photograph captures a very different aspect of India, and each is full of tremendous energy, whether an intimate close-up of an elephant or a field of camels. Most energetic of all are the spectacular portraits of holy festivals: children painted like lions or dressed as Krishna, a crowd in the midst of being drenched in sacred colored powders.
A lovely foreword by writer Jhumpa Lahiri presents a very personal childhood experience of India. At the back of the book is a helpful little guide, replete with mini-pictures of the full-page images and explanations of when and where each is taken and a bit about the background of the photograph. This book will make you want to pack your bags and head straight for the airport to try to experience even a fraction of the vitality that`s in these 135 color illustrations. --J.P. Cohen
About the Author
Xavier Zimbardo is a photographer and journalist whose work has been featured in several European and international photography publications such as Zoom, Camera International, and Photographers International. The recipient of several grants and prizes, including those from the Kodak Foundation and the French government, he is the author of four volumes published in France: Ladies; Xavier Zimbardo; Vietnam: To the Country of Contrary Roads; and The Lost Beauties. He has had solo exhibitions of his work at museums and galleries throughout France, including Paris, as well as in Athens, Sicily, Milan, Odense, and Montreal. His work is on permanent display in several museums worldwide including Paris`s Bibiliothèque Nationale and Maison Européenne de la Photographie. He lives in Sarcelles, France.
Jhumpa Lahiri is the critically acclaimed author of the short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies, which has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the New Yorker Book Award for Best Fiction Debut, The Pen/Hemingway Award, The Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has been selected for both the O. Henry Award and The Best American Short Stories. ISBN - 9780847822911
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