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Subject: [Leica] Book: "SE Asia" by Steve McCurry
From: Robert Appleby <robert.appleby@tin.it>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 20:15:16 +0100

>>>>>>
Frankly, Steve's book should have been named "South and SE Asia". That
would have been more accurate. Since you know him, maybe you should give
him my feedfack. India may seem fascinating but IMHO it's already overdone
photographically.
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Well, I'd say that a certain view of India is overdone, definitely. The
rickshaws in monsoon floods, poverty, cholera camps, smiling kids in the
dust, rural women with brass water pots on their heads. Unfortunately
there's so much about the place that _hasn't_ been explored
photographically, or has received little attention.
Dayanita Singh's photographs of her middle class Delhi friends at home or
partying, is a good example. There's not much market for it because it
doesn't fit the orientalist prejudices of the western media.
I haven't been to other parts of (south or SE) Asia, and I hope to one day,
but I feel that India itself is so various, such a universe of life, that
it could never be exhausted.
But that's just my feeling. For me, I could spend a lifetime photographing
Bombay! 
Rob.
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