'Nearly five decades after [American photographer] Robert Frank, Gauri Gill takes a series of solitary journeys through America traveling extensively from New York and New Jersey to California to the Midwest and five Southern states. She moves outward, from the nucleus of family and friends to their networks, through a map lined with the material and psychological presence of migrants... The resultant body of photographs 'The Americans' emerges as a palimpsest that pays homage to Frank as much as it documents the new Americans and Indian immigrants. That Gill addresses her subjects with the transnational gaze of the traveling photographer brings her subject within the potent discourse of migration and diaspora, post-coloniality and the new world. Set in the chromatic intimacy of the candid photograph, it is inscribed by the material residue of two cultures, of the glittering flecks of Bollywood and Hollywood, the Indian and the American dream.' - extracted from essay by critic and curator Gayatri Sinha.
Artist biography is provided in the present catalogue.
Artist biography is provided in the present catalogue.
Access level
Onsite
publisher
Location code
MON.GIG
Language
English
Keyword
photography,  solo exhibition
Publication/Creation date
2008
No of pages
120
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph, 
catalogue
Chapter headings
Gauri Gill: The Americans - Gayatri SINHA
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