Prabuddha Dasgupta

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Prabuddha Dasgupta (born September 21, 1956 in Calcutta , West Bengal ; † August 12, 2012 in Alibaug , Maharashtra ) was an Indian advertising and fashion photographer .

Life

After studying history in Delhi , Dasgupta became a screenwriter and then a photographer for advertising . He worked for the magazines Vogue , Elle , Harper's Bazaar and GQ and published books with artistically ambitious photography. His best-known photo series include Women (1996), a series of photographs of urban women; including nude photos, which were controversially discussed in public, as well as the landscape photos from Ladakh in Ladakh (2000) and photographs in the Edge of Faith published by William Dalrymple in 2009 about the Goan Christian community. His works have been shown at national and international solo and group exhibitions.

Although he was married to another woman and had children, Dasgupta lived in Goa for the last few years of his life with the model Lakshmi Menon , whom he frequently portrayed.

Exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ibnlive.in.com/news/noted-photographer-prabuddha-dasgupta-passes-away/281621-8-66.html
  2. ↑ http://www.seagullindia.com/books/detailviewlonnew.asp?prodid=3395
  3. ↑ Prabuddha Dasgupta (short biography) . In: Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh , catalog for the exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery London and the Fotomuseum Winterthur 2010, ISBN 978-0-85488-179-6 , p. 361
personal data
SURNAME Dasgupta, Prabuddha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian advertising and fashion photographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta , West Bengal
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2012
Place of death Alibaug , Maharashtra