It is no coincidence that the photo chosen to represent the 450 photos of this unprecedented sum of 504 pages and the 300 artists she honors, is a warrior, dapper, sure of herself, brandishing a weapon towards the viewer.
In this photo-novel style series produced in 1998 in Modinagar, near Delhi, Pushpamala N., the most famous of Indian photographers, wanted to capture the fantasy of a middle-class housewife, dressed in a uniform urban, a dressing gown and a petticoat, and his alter ego, a creature in a golden dress with a very sixties puff hairstyle.
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My work has introduced humor, wit, irony, satire and emotion into photography.
It aroused an interest in discredited forms (…) I introduced into Indian photography a vision more conceptual than documentary
”, explains the 64-year-old artist.
The one who praises it, Lola Mac Dougall, is the founder of GoaPhoto.
She is full of science and fire for this
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