Abstract
This review essay examines three recent photobooks by Dayanita Singh: Let's See, Book Building, and Dancing with My Camera, which show the evolution and singularity of her work. Singh's main medium is an essential form of photographic communication: the photographic book. As a documenter, a photographic book artist, and a conceptual artist, she and her work have transformed and conflated our definitions of what it takes to construct a book, an archive, or an exhibition. Singh creatively conflates the distinctions between exteriorizing documentary and inward-looking autobiography. She explodes the somatic concepts of bodily viewing photography, intertwining the acts of physically walking through an exhibition, holding a book in one's hands, and leafing through a file folder. Her projects interrogate concepts of family, technology, belonging, and identity.
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