{"id":579,"date":"2004-10-22T04:24:06","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T09:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=579"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:24","slug":"raghubir_singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/raghubir_singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Raghubir Singh photo exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/RaghubirSingh.jpg\" align=baseline border=0><\/CENTER>\n<P>The <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepia.org\/home.html\">Sepia International photo gallery<\/A> in Manhattan (how apropos) is hosting a <A href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/deccanherald\/aug17\/sh2.asp\">Raghubir Singh<\/A> retrospective through Dec. 30. Singh, an Indian photographer who worked in brilliant color, did for the humble Ambassador what <EM>Austin Powers<\/EM> did for the Mini.<\/P>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>&#8220;Unlike people in the West, Indians have always intuitively seen and controlled colour&#8230; My artistic sense was shaped early by the culture of the Rajputs of Rajasthan.&#8221;&#8230; it was the dazzling colours of his native state, its hawelis&#8230; clothes&#8230; and sand dunes that impressed and inspired the budding artist.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n<P>Singh eventually settled in the U.S. and was awarded one of India&#8217;s highest civilian awards, the <A href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Padma_Sree\">Padma Shri<\/A>, for his photography in 1983. He passed away in 1999.<\/P>\n<P>Our own <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tiffinbox.org\/2004\/09\/raghubir_singh_.html\">Seshu<\/A>&nbsp;has more.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sepia International photo gallery in Manhattan (how apropos) is hosting a Raghubir Singh retrospective through Dec. 30. Singh, an Indian photographer who worked in brilliant color, did for the humble Ambassador what Austin Powers did for the Mini. &#8220;Unlike &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/22\/raghubir_singh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}