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- Raghubir Singh (* 22. Oktober 1942 in Jaipur, Rajasthan; † 18. April 1999 in New York City) war ein indischer Fotograf. Er gilt als einer der renommiertesten Fotografen seiner Generation. (de)
- Raghubir Singh (22 octobre 1942 – 18 avril 1999) est un photographe indien, surtout connu pour ses paysages et le style documentaire de ses photographies des habitants de l'Inde. Photographe autodidacte, il a travaillé en Inde et vécut à Paris, Londres et New York. Durant sa carrière, il a travaillé avec National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker et Time. Au début des années 1970, il est l'un des premiers photographes à réinventer l'utilisation de la couleur à une époque où la photographie couleur est encore un art marginal. (fr)
- Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India. He was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York. During his career he worked with National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Time. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form. Singh belonged to a tradition of small-format street photography, working in color, that to him, represented the intrinsic value of Indian aesthetics. According to his 2004 retrospective his "documentary-style vision was neither sugarcoated, nor abject, nor controllingly omniscient". Deeply influenced by modernism, he liberally took inspiration from Rajasthani miniatures, Mughal paintings and Bengal, a place where he thought western modernist ideas and vernacular Indian art were fused for the first time, as reflected in the works of the Bengal school and the humanism of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. "Beauty, nature, humanism and spirituality were the cornerstones of Indian culture" for him and became the bedrock for his work. Singh published 14 well-received books on the Ganges, Calcutta, Benares, his native Rajasthan, Grand Trunk Road, and the Hindustan Ambassador car. Today, his work is part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, amongst others. (en)
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- Raghubir Singh (* 22. Oktober 1942 in Jaipur, Rajasthan; † 18. April 1999 in New York City) war ein indischer Fotograf. Er gilt als einer der renommiertesten Fotografen seiner Generation. (de)
- Raghubir Singh (22 octobre 1942 – 18 avril 1999) est un photographe indien, surtout connu pour ses paysages et le style documentaire de ses photographies des habitants de l'Inde. Photographe autodidacte, il a travaillé en Inde et vécut à Paris, Londres et New York. Durant sa carrière, il a travaillé avec National Geographic, The New York Times, The New Yorker et Time. Au début des années 1970, il est l'un des premiers photographes à réinventer l'utilisation de la couleur à une époque où la photographie couleur est encore un art marginal. (fr)
- Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India. He was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York. During his career he worked with National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Time. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form. (en)
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