Yamuna Walk Contributor(s): Bhalla, Atul (Photographer), Noorani, Maliha (With) |
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ISBN: 0295991771 ISBN-13: 9780295991771 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Photography | Individual Photographers - General - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
Dewey: 954.560 |
LCCN: 2011042657 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 11.7" W x 8.3" (2.82 lbs) 196 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Yamuna Walk, photographer and multimedia artist Atul Bhalla documents a five-day trek along the sacred Yamuna River as it passes through his home city of New Delhi, India. Through his vivid and haunting photographs, Bhalla explores the myriad ways that modern life along the Yamuna is shaped by water, from the rural outskirts of the city to the polluted landscape of urban Delhi. Climbing over fences, crossing concrete overpasses, and navigating between blooming fields and piles of waste on his journeys, Bhalla also shows the diverse marks of human development that can be read in the image of the river. Bhalla describes his practice as an attempt to understand water, the way he perceives it, feels it, drinks it, swims in it, and sinks in it. The personal and humanized but still mysterious Yamuna that emerges through his photographs sheds an unusual and compelling light on issues of water and the urban environment. |