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The Historian’s Eye
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About the book
While researching for his forthcoming book, The Anarchy, which tells the story of how a militarized multinational destroyed and replaced the mighty and supremely elegant empire of the Great Mughals, William Dalrymple visited all the places in the Indian subcontinent where this history took place — the battlefields and ruins, the mosques, Sufi shrines and temples, the paradise gardens and pleasure grounds, the barrack blocks and townhouses, the crumbling Mughal havelis and the palaces and forts. This collection is a record of that journey. Shot on his Samsung Edge, the striking black-and-white images in this collection convey the immediacy and lack of pretension that a cellphone offers in recording the world around us. For, as Dalrymple himself says, ‘Photography should always be about the eye, not the equipment.’
Pages: 120
Available in: Hardback
Language: English
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple is a writer, traveller and historian as well as a curator, critic and one of the co-directors and founders of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival. His first book, In Xanadu, written when he was twenty-two, was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize He is the author of several bestselling books, including Return of a King, White Mughals and Nine Lives.