Pothi Box

Pothi Box

Singh, Dayanita, 1961--Catalogs

India--Pictorial Works

Artists' Books--India--Specimens

Photography, Artistic

This book provides an excellent example of Singh's rich black and white photography as a serial, and brings ideas from Museum Bhavan to a smaller scale. A wooden box acts as the books binding element and display structure; the front cover image can be changed to any of the 30 prints. The photographs document archival documents and materials, and include a range of materials and containers. The book comes wrapped in a cloth binding; its knot is specific and this method can be seen in the photographs. The book is a version, not a catalogue, of Pothi Khana museum structure exhibited at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh and Callicoon Fine Arts.

Edition size: 360

Singh, Dayanita, 1961-

Spontaneous Books (self-published)

New Delhi, India

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Materials/Printing: Offset printing.

Structure/Folds: recombinant.

Dimensions: 1 wooden box with 30 numbered cards; 21 x 16 x 3 cm (closed)

artists' books (books)

Twenty-first century (dates CE)

2018

The original object was photographed with a NIKON D300 digital camera at 300 ppi as a JPEG file format. The JPEG file was then modified in Adobe Photoshop.

Photographer Marie A. Andrews

5 total views: front view, interior view