Faces and Forms

Jyoti Bhatt’s Photographic Journey

Edited by Umesh Gaur and Ajay Sinha

Bilingual Imagination of Jyoti Bhatt

Ajay Sinha

Art historian and the Julie ’73 and Helene ’49 Herzig Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College.

The Ethics of Attention: Jyoti Bhatt’s Living Traditions Photographs

Darielle Mason

Senior Curator Emerita of South Asian Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Freeze, Frame, Form: Jyoti Bhatt’s Living Traditions

Aurogeeta Das

Art historian and curator whose work focuses on Indian indigenous, vernacular, and print traditions.

Portraiture as Presence and Reflection

Part I: The Artist in the World: Portraits of a Shared Life

Part II: The Artist in Reflection: Self and the Conditions of Seeing

Umesh Gaur

Collector-scholar and photographer; co-founder of the Gaur Collection of modern and contemporary Indian art.

(Non)-Experiments with (Non)-Objectivity: Jyoti Bhatt and the Picturing of Postcolonial Modernism in India

Khushmi Mehta

Doctoral researcher in art history at the CUNY Graduate Center and a fellow of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

The Restless Image: From Photograph to Print in Jyoti Bhatt’s Practice

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Carol Huh

Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.

Seeing Through the Archive: Jyoti Bhatt and the Archival Turn

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Sabih Ahmed and Sneha Ragavan

Sabih Ahmed is a curator and researcher whose work spans contemporary art and archives. Sneha Ragavan is an art historian and researcher with Asia Art Archive in India.