"Two girls pose before a crumbling wall, one before the other. Their outstretched hands are clasped together and in each hand..."
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Interview with Nature Morte Owner/Director Peter Nagy and New Delhi-based contemporary Art Collector Nitin Bhayana discussing contemporary South Asian photography.
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"When you look at Gauri Gill's images in her touring collection The Americans, it sometimes feels as if you're gazing into a mirror and seeing a reflection of yourself. Indeed, there will be few immigrants who do not see a piece of themselves, a bit of their story echoed in her photographs."
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"When you look at Gauri Gill’s images in her touring collection 'The Americans', it sometimes
feels as if you’re gazing into a mirror and seeing a reflection of yourself."
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"Contemporary Indian photography and the diasporic experience."
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"With the geographic breadth of the country serving as a metaphor, Delhi based photographer Gauri Gill’s,‘The Americans’, possesses the elements of a documentary, capturing the despair, grittiness and alienation as also the gratification of the Indian American experience. "
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"Guari Gill’s collection of photographs on the Indian diaspora are a kaleidoscope of the known entity, the well-recorded struggles and the achievements."
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"Sari to Be An American?"
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"As we have all come to know, the South Asian diaspora in America is a wild and dynamic mix of tenacious traditionalism and postmodern sophistication that defies comparison with any other immigrant group..."
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"With the intention of entering the Cultural Center of Chicago to quickly grab a map and
head north to the cliché landmark that is Navy Pier, I ended up staying much longer after noticing a photography exhibit of Gauri Gill."
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"As we have all come to know, the South Asian diaspora in America is a wild and dynamic mix of tenacious traditionalism and postmodern sophistication that defies comparison with any other immigrant group."
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"With the intention of entering the Cultural Center of Chicago to quickly grab a map and head north to the cliché landmark that is Navy Pier, I ended up staying much longer after noticing a photography exhibit of Gauri Gill..."
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"Gauri Gill's "The Americans" on display in the Michigan Avenue Galleries is a remarkable body of work. To fully grasp what it is that Gill attempts in this project we need to understand something about an earlier project..."
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"Gauri Gill’s “The Americans” on display in the Michigan Avenue Galleries is a remarkable body of work. To fully grasp what it is that Gill attempts in this project we need to understand something about an earlier project – the Jewish, Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank’s work of the same name published in 1958. It is to this earlier work that Gill explicitly refers, and it is within this broader history of photography that her work needs to be placed."
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"Gujarati boys and girls in the latest Hindi soap chic at a matrimonial convention centre; a sad and lonely Gujarati man in the opulent home of his son, a motel chain owner; a Christie's auction of Indian contemporary art.."
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"With a nod to Robert Frank's seminal 1955 book of the same title, Delhi-based photographer Gauri Gill's The Americans, on display from March 15th to the 29th at Delhi's Nature Morte Gallery, documents the anxieties, excesses and sprawling suburban dreams of South Asians living in the United States. "
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"The Uttarkashi earthquake, the hijras of Mumbai, a fragmented NRI family in the
US−the shutter closes, the 35 mm film starts rolling and the lens captures a moment
that was."
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"Gauri Gill's photographs of the Indian diaspora in America evoke a shifting world. Writer MARINA BUDHOS explores its contours. What I love about photography is its blend of the documentary and the artful; how a good photograph can have the surprising, sudden candour of a short story..."
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"There is a quiet audaciousness in the title of Gauri Gill's first solo exhibition of photographs — The Americans (Bose Pacia, until March 8). In 1955, exactly a quarter of a century before Gill was born in Chandigarh, Robert Frank — a Swiss Jew in his early thirties, who had emigrated to the United States — won a Guggenheim fellowship to travel all over America taking photographs of its people and spaces..."
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"Chinese contemporary art, glinting and posturing, continues to hold the limelight, but for my money the work being made in India these days is the real deal, deep and rich..."
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"Guari Gill's photographs of Indians in America should have been mounted more imaginatively..."
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"Shot across the United States from 2000 to 2007, Gill’s photographs document the Indian diaspora as it has settled across the country in rural areas, small towns and big cities, both retaining its traditional signifiers of Indian identity and merging within a larger
American plurality. The resulting color photographs are simultaneously humorous,
poignant, ironic, and beguiling. Gill’s portrayal of her subjects and their lives emerges
through her strict attention to detail and sympathetic juxtapositions."
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"Displaying a rapidly altering sensibility Gauri's work has shifted from a toned down intimate and personal representations of the Indian NRI community based in USA ( a series she did during her stint in US ) towards a starker extraction of real-time Indian scenarios ranging from..."
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"Documenting Indian communities from Rajasthan to Yuba City."
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