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India: In Word and Image
Photography by Eric Meola
#UC3112
Hardcover, 272 pages; 2008
$48.00
I can't open this amazing photography book without getting lost in Eric Meola's India. The colors seem far too bright and saturated to be real; from the first picture one is plunged into wonders almost beyond description. Only photographs can communicate such scenes: elephants hung with bells and embroidered fabrics and painted with flowers from trunk to tail; the springtime festival of Holi, when Hindus celebrate in the streets by dousing each other with fluorescent powders; India's towering palaces and temples, and her many people. Every few pages, a literary passage from an Indian author such as Arundhati Roy or Salman Rushdie appears among the photos—complementing the beautiful images with equally beautiful words.
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