About Indian photo artist Dayanita SINGH (b.1961, in New Delhi)

Dayanita SINGH studied at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad and the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London; the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. In 2013 she represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. Bookmaking is central to Singh’s practice. Her book 'Museum Bhavan' was book of the Year at the 2017 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards and winner of the 2018 ICP Infinity Award for Artist’s Book. She is the Hasselblad Award recipient 2022.

Photo books by Dayanita SINGH

'Myself Mona Ahmed' (2001, 2023); 'Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit' (2003, together with Wolfgang TILLMANS, Boris MIKHAILOV, Hans BELLWINKEL, et al.); 'Privacy' (2004); 'Chairs' (2005); 'Go Away Closer' (2007); 'Sent a Letter' (2007); 'Blue Book' (2009); 'Dream Villa' (2010); 'Dayanita Singh' (2010); 'File Room' (2013); 'Museum of Chance' (2014); 'Museum Bhavan' (2017); 'Zakir Hussain Maquette' (2019); 'Dancing with my camera' (2022); 'Let's See' (2022); 'Sea of Files. Hasselbald Award 2022' (2022); 'Book Building' (2022); 'Pothi Khana' (announced); 'Bawa Chairs' (announced); 'Museum of Tanpura' (announced)


HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 11 x 20 x 2 cm., 136 pp.,, color ills., text language: English
28,00 € *
The third volume in the series 'Conversations' by Remi Coignet also contains interviews with participants from the international photo scene on the role of the photo book in the work of photographers, designers & publishers, as well as their book design.
from 25,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
'Dancing with my camera' is the most comprehensive publication on Dayanita SINGH to date. It presents her work, contains works from the 80s, a new series and the works 'Museum of Chance', 'Museum of Shedding', 'I am as I am', 'Go Away Closer' & 'Box 507'.
40,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
Out-of-print catalog 'Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit (of Homelessness) shows works by Boris MIKHAILOV, Ulrike MYRZIK/Manfred JARISCH, Dayanita SINGH, Wolfgang TILLMANS, John VINK as well as Wolfgang BELLWINKEL and their artistic positions on this topic.
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'Sea of Files' celebrates Dayanita SINGH as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award. It highlights her engagement with the archive as a vessel of cultural experience. An essay by Orhan Pamuk explores the lyrical reality of her images of state archives.
38,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
The comprehensive publication 'The How we See: Photobooks by Women' is an invaluable reference. Sien contains current and historical photo books by women photographers, a chronology and essays on the history and practice of photo books by women.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
10 slipcased leporellos, 9 x 14 cm., 298 pp., 241 ills., text language: English
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HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 24,5 x 33,5 x 2 cm., 160 pp., highly illutrated, English
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'Book Building' documents 13 photo books by Dayanita SINGH in images and short texts. At the center is the collaborative process that she and her publisher have established over 20 years and the conviction that a book is always in the process of becoming.
28,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
The catalogue 'Photobooks. Art Page by Page' accompanies an exhibition with a selection of 45 photo books from recent decades, focusing on unusual concepts, designs & forms of presentation that reveal the potential of the photo book as an artistic medium.
48,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg