Via Santhosh Daniel

Let the flames begin!

I think it is a hilarious take on what Rush Limbaugh and his ilk have had to say since the elections on November 2. Personally, I'll take the 5th on this one.

Via Sree Sreenivasan

South Asian Journalists Association and Gallery ArtsIndia invites you to meet one of India's leading female artists, Anjolie Ela Menon. Please join us on Wednesday, November 10, 2004, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Cocktails and hors'doeuvres with the artist begin at 6:30 pm, and a discussion with Menon will begin at 7:00 pm. The event will be held at Gallery ArtsIndia located at 206 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor. The exhibition runs from November 9 to December 5, 2004.

Anjolie Ela Menon is one of India's preeminent Contemporary Indian artists. Menon's unique style has constantly evolved over the past four decades of her career, as she continually re-envisions her role as an artist. In the 60s and 70s, Anjolie began exploring the human pathos through haunted modernist forms, then moved to adopt characteristics of Christian medieval art in the 70s and 80s, and eventually worked with found objects in the 90s. This show of recent works comes full circle and is reminiscent of Anjolie's earlier style as she explores social issues and human anguish through figurative works.

This highly anticipated show is the first solo show of Anjolie Ela Menon outside India in the past 5 years. Menon's works are included in leading international collections.

The great portraits are about a connection between the photographer and the subject. The connection that the photographer and the subject make with one another is reflected then to the person who looks at the photograph. Now, how do you know when that connection works the best? It's when the photograph goes straight from your eyes to your heart.

Clearly a pitch to buy the new National Geographic book, In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits, but editor-in-chief elect (and photographer may I add) Chris Johns and senior editor Leah Bendavid-Val offer up some sound advice when it comes to making effective portraits.

I didn't watch the show, but a few days back I wrote hoping Anish Shroff would be the next anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter.

That dream just didn't come true. Tonight, with seconds to go, America cut him. Damn shame, if you ask me.

Sree Sreenivasan who did watch tonight's show says, “On his way out, Stuart Scott told him [Anish]: “You got some skills. ‘ll see you in this business.” That's quite a compliment.

Wishing Anish Shroff the best in his future endeavors.

“The images surround us and we live with them.”

A photo festival in the city of lights. Go figure.

Paris Photo commences this Thursday. More information about this gathering on the Expatica site.

Via Steve Outing

10×10 is one slick news website that is visually driven.

"The site consists of a main page with a 10×10 grid of thumbnail images, each representing a top news story of the day, ranked in order of current importance. There's also a list of words on the right side. The words and images are linked for highlighting as you pass your mouse over."

Outing thinks this site is a "visual variant of Google News."

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Bound for New York anytime soon?

“Drawn from the collections of the Metropolitan and the Gilman Paper Company, the exhibition spotlights 35 photographs related to six influential 20th-century publications by the photographers Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Klein, and Helen Levitt.”

Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book will run at at Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 5, 2004, through March 6, 2005.

Via Tamina Davar

Screenwriter and photographer Sooni Taraporevala has launched a much awaited second edition of her popular book “Parsis – the Zoroastrians of India”. Taraporevala is known for her work on movies such as Such A Long Journey, My Own Country and Salaam Bombay, all graphically rich features. She is currently working with director Mira Nair on an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's book, The Namesake.

“A twenty-four year labor of love, PARSIS is the first visual documentation of India's Parsi community, followers of the world‚s first prophet Zarathustra, and the oldest monotheistic religion, Zoroastrianism. Professional photographer and award-winning screenwriter Taraporevala offers a rare insider's view of how the Parsis, whose ancestors sailed from Persia to India over 1,000 years ago to save their religion from persecution, survive today as a religious and ethnic minority of India.

UNESCO recently celebrated 3,000 years of Zoroastrianism, once the religion of the Persian Empires. Greatly influencing other major religions, Zoroastrianism‚s followers once numbered in the millions. Today Zoroastrians worldwide – including Parsis – are thought to be on the verge of extinction. Yet the community has produced many leaders and artists, include world-renowned conductor Zubin Mehta; the late rock legend Freddy Mercury; and award-winning author Rohinton Mistry, who are documented in the book. The first edition, published in 2000 in India, sold out within several months. Taraporevala's photographs – and written essays and interviews – offer a vivid window into this community of intense contradictions and continuing endurance.”

The book is on sale at Amazon.com and the Asia Society. Please support this wonderful project.