Raghubir Singh - Kashmir: Garden of the Himalayas

1st edition published by Thames & Hudson, 1983

Format: Hardback with dustjacket, 310x 265mm

Pages: 112

Condition: Very Good. Some minor signs of age.

Kashmir - even the name itself - has always evoked a more romantic response than any other part of the great Indian subcontinent. When the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, who called himself Kashmiri by descent, wrote of a visit to that area in his younger years, he said that 'the sheer loveliness of it was overpowering and I felt faint'.

Raghubir Singh, the gifted photographer whose glorious book on Rajasthan was enthusiastically received by press and public in 1981, has captured that overpowering loveliness in many guises in his new book on Kashmir.

Organizing his images in accordance with the four seasons, Singh shows not only the eternal beauty of mountains, lakes, fields and trees, but also the engaging and richly coloured attractiveness of people at work and play, of animals and of houses.

This is colour photography of infinite variety and intimacy, produced with superb artistry and designed to draw the spectator into the very heart of an intensely seductive land.

With 80 colour plates