Unposed India
by Craig Semetko
Published on 9. October 2023
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-951511-44-9 (ISBN)
Description
In the summer of 2013, Craig Semetko was one of 10 photographers worldwide invited by Leica Camera to take part in a unique exhibition celebrating its 100 year anniversary. The photographers were paired with their artistic fathers, and asked to shoot a project with them in mind. Semetko was paired with iconic photographer Elliott Erwitt, and a series of circumstances conspired to send him to India to shoot the project.
Semetko spent the fall of 2013 traveling throughout the country, visiting Mumbai, Chennai, Goa, Kolkata, Delhi, Varanasi, Jaipur, and the world's largest camel fair in Pushkar. He documented everyday life as he explored the region, focusing on the authentic human experience and storytelling through photography.
India Unposed is an exploration of the juxtaposition in life's fleeting moments. From teeming cities to desolate ruins, his camera captures the spontaneity and serendipity across all walks of life in this celebration of this vast country. With the staggering contrasts of light and dark, Semetko truly masters the black and white.
Continuing in the candid style of his first book Unposed, Semetko has created another phenomenal collection of spontaneous moments, finding the beautiful, humorous, and dramatic in every minute and every space.
Semetko spent the fall of 2013 traveling throughout the country, visiting Mumbai, Chennai, Goa, Kolkata, Delhi, Varanasi, Jaipur, and the world's largest camel fair in Pushkar. He documented everyday life as he explored the region, focusing on the authentic human experience and storytelling through photography.
India Unposed is an exploration of the juxtaposition in life's fleeting moments. From teeming cities to desolate ruins, his camera captures the spontaneity and serendipity across all walks of life in this celebration of this vast country. With the staggering contrasts of light and dark, Semetko truly masters the black and white.
Continuing in the candid style of his first book Unposed, Semetko has created another phenomenal collection of spontaneous moments, finding the beautiful, humorous, and dramatic in every minute and every space.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Focus
Illustrations
100
Dimensions
Height: 324 mm
Width: 254 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
648 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-951511-44-9 (9781951511449)
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Persons
Leica Camera Ambassador Craig Semetko is an American photographer focusing on authentic human experience. Born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, and based in Los Angeles, Semetko became a professional comedy writer and performer after college and years later discovered photography as another means of storytelling. His comedic background has given him a highly developed sense of the absurd and ironic, resulting in a strong theme of humor throughout his work. In his foreword for Semetko's book Unposed, Magnum Photos photographer Elliott Erwitt writes, "Good photographs are tough enough to shoot. Really funny ones are even harder. Good and funny photographs observed in nature not arranged or manipulated but simply observed in real time with amazing consistency, constitute a minor miracle now presented in Mr. Semetko's book...In my book, he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen." Semetko's photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and numerous other publications worldwide.