{"product_id":"dayanita-singh-lets-see-9783969990087","title":"Dayanita Singh: Let's See","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA return to a time when Dayanita Singh (born 1961) did not yet consider herself a photographer, \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e is the probing remembrance of \"an eye I no longer have access to.\" Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive--80% of which remains unseen--exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten--hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother, Nony Singh, the musician, Zakir Hussain, and Mona Ahmed, whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography \u003ci\u003eMyself Mona Ahmed\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).\u003cbr\u003eSingh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50 mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg, and with it she \"made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible,\" creating contact sheets of all her images, but realizing the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project. \"I call this book \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e,\" says Singh, \"because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we don't see, what only the camera sees....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steidl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783969990087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Dayanita Singh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362423410869,"sku":"9783969990087","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_10e70189-5782-4971-bc57-21c774861a0d.jpg?v=1662435262","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dayanita-singh-lets-see-9783969990087","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}