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Dayanita Singh
Go Away Closer
Go Away Closer is a novel without words. It concerns series of opposites in Singh’s India: presence and absence,
reality and dreams, tradition and progress. She is able to express the emotion underlying these often abstract
concepts, because her photography springs from her own intimate experiences. For example, Singh establishes a
connection between her personal losses, and the collective sadness due to lost traditions in the face of technology.
Such opposites are ultimately irreconcilable, as embodied by the paradox of the book’s title. Singh embraces this
uncertainty, and presents visual clues in her photographs into which the viewer can read his or her own biography.
Go Away Closer – like all of Singh’s books – is not about answering questions, but considering the emotion fabric
from which they arise.
Dayanita Singh was born in 1961 in New Delhi. She studied visual communication at the National Institute of Design,
Ahmedabab, and documentary photography at ICP, New York. Singh has had several solo shows but her passion is
making books: Myself Mona Ahmed (2001), Privacy (2003), and Chairs (2005) have been published so far.
Exhibitions: Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, December 18, 2006 to January 20, 2007; Kriti Gallery, Banares,
January 14 to February 28, 2007; Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Bombay, February 8 to 28, 2007; Gallery
Chemould, Bombay, February 8 to 28, 2007.
Dayanita Singh
Go Away Closer
Book design by Dayanita Singh and Gerhard Steidl
32 pages with 31 tritone plates
6.3 x 7.9 in. / 16 x 20 cm
Softcover
$ 15.00 / £ 8.50 / € 12.00
ISNB: 978-3-86521-386-0
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(9783865213860)
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