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White and Black

White and Black : A Journey to the centre of Imperial Calcutta Book

White and Black : A Journey to the centre of Imperial Calcutta

By ChristopherTaylor, Soumitra Das

Category: Heritage Books
ISBN: 978-81-89738-43-3
MRP: 2495

This book takes a clear-eyed view of the changing face of Calcutta. The city’s built heritage inherited from pre-Independence times is in the last stages of ruination but the buildings bear traces of the glamour that once won Calcutta the sobriquet of ‘City of Palaces’.

White and Black
ChristopherTaylor

Christopher Taylor <b>Christopher Taylor</b> is an English photographer based in France with the vision of a poet. His black-and-white photographs have an elegiac quality that sensitively capture the misty, grey climes of Iceland, the rarely-noticed details of China's bleak and dreary urbanscape, and the grand colonial buildings of Calcutta that had seen better days. A zoologist by training, this self-taught photographer mostly uses a cumbersome studio camera or else an ancient Rolliflex even in the busiest streets, and yet human beings are rarely sighted in his works. So, his photographs never fail to surprise. He has held critically-acclaimed exhibitions in Paris, Arles, London, Beijing, Delhi, Mumbai, and Calcutta. <!--EndFragment-->

Format: Hard Cover
Size: 292 x 279mm
Foreward (If any): Olaf Van Cleef
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