![]() Currently, it can take as long as 20 weeks to for consumer electronics to pass safety tests - but the new approvals could bring that down to as little as three days. Please verify the number of requests made per second to the Amazon Product Advertising API.India is planning to speed up testing and safety approvals of electronic devices, including smartphones and earbuds, to reduce their time to market. TooManyRequests|The request was denied due to request throttling. India: In My Eyes by Barbara Macklowe Papadakis, 2012 272 pages, 176 color photos, hardcover List Price: $70/£45 ISBN-13: 978-1906506292 “We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”Ĭopyright 2013, Sabu Advani (). We leave you with a quote from Stray Birds that is not in the book: Thus, even a seasoned traveler to India, will find something new and strange and wondrous in these photos-and all for less than the cost of shipping your camera bag. She obviously crisscrossed the country but also time zones, not in the conventional sense but “across” time, into different eras altogether, to visit people/s who do not normally-or ever-cross paths with Westerners. Almost all photos also have captions identifying the location or occasion and often saying something about Macklowe’s thought process or drawing attention to a particular detail. All quotes are from the same poem, Stray Birds (1916) which, conveniently, consists of mostly one-liners dealing with nature, man, and the environment. To make it more than just a generic photo album or travelogue, almost every photo is accompanied by an appropriate line of poetry by Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1913. The vast majority of photos in this beautifully made, oversize book is portraiture or at least people-centric, interspersed with the occasional landscape or architectural image, one photo to a page and sometimes a spread. Which is certainly what any Indian would say, even today, and not just the tribal people whose lives still follow century-old traditions but also cellphone-wielding big-city folk. It is a sympathetic and, in the most neutral sense of the word, uncritical view. Macklowe’s book illustrates this it is as much a personal view as a point of view-after all, this is not a State Department position paper. Heartney rightly calls it a “ visual cacophany” and full of contradictions. Bugatti folks with a long memory may recall that Macklowe Gallery, now a premier dealer of museum-quality Art Nouveau and Tiffany objects, started in 1972 with an exhibit of Rembrandt Bugatti bronzes.Īnyone who follows the news or knows even a little bit about history will recognize that India’s vast size is home to a multitude of geographic and climactic, political and religious features, all of which are reflected in its inhabitants. ![]() Macklowe’s first visit to India was in 2004 and both she herself and the two other commentators, Philippe Garner of Christie’s art/photo department and fine arts writer/critic Eleanor Heartney, single out her years of looking at art as a New York art dealer as a key factor in developing an acute sensibility for light and color. ![]() But Barbara Macklowe has got as close as it is possible.” Macklowe calls her book “a love poem” and Indian poet/politician/culture maven (and, less well-known, keen portraitist) Pritish Nandy says in the Foreword about her ability to capture the essence of a bafflingly diverse and to her foreign land, India: “It is an impossible task to capture its spirit, its magic, its beauty. Macklowe photographs more than people, of course, but people photos probably more than any other kind reveal something about the photographer and also require something of the photographer-a particular sensitivity towards a member of one’s own species who is fundamentally the same but, in the case of a different culture, utterly alien. I am most often drawn to these particular people by first seeing them as color and light, then form, and then subject.” The sound can be somewhat like music, but more intense, insistent, and personal, that happens without warning or premonition. I often experience a physical sensation like an electric charge. “Sometimes when I meet people I feel as if I am looking through their eyes and into their souls.
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