Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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Dayanita Singh<br />
File Room<br />
Dayanita Singh’s photos of archives and their custodians across India examine how memory is made and how history<br />
is narrated. These images bring to light the paradox of archives: they are impersonal in their classifications, yet each is<br />
the careful handiwork of an individual archivist, an unsung keeper of history whose decisions generate the sources of<br />
much of our knowledge. Archives are vessels of orthodox fact but can also be the home of neglected details and<br />
forgotten documents than can unfix the status quo. As the pace of change in contemporary India accelerates and Indians<br />
turn from the past and fix their gaze on the future, what will become of the archive? Singh prompts us to imagine archives<br />
as not merely documents of dusty scholarship but as monuments of knowledge, beautiful in their unkempt order.<br />
Dayanita Singh was born in New Delhi in 1961 and studied at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and the<br />
International Center of Photography in New York. Singh has exhibited at institutions including the Serpentine Gallery in<br />
London and Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. Handcrafting books is central to her practice. Singh’s books at <strong>Steidl</strong> include<br />
Privacy (2004), Go Away Closer (2007), Sent a Letter (2008) and Dream Villa (2010).<br />
Dayanita Singh<br />
FILE ROOM<br />
Dayanita Singh<br />
File Room<br />
Book design by Dayanita Singh and Gerhard <strong>Steidl</strong><br />
160 pages<br />
9.5 x 12.6 in. / 24 x 32 cm<br />
120 photographs<br />
Tritone<br />
Softcover<br />
€ 45.00 / £ 36.00 / US$ 58.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-542-4<br />
95
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