CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/25/2022

A comprehensive new survey on Dayanita Singh

“Go Away Closer” (2007) is reproduced from Dayanita Singh: Dancing with My Camera, the exhibition catalog to the 2022 Hasselblad Award winner’s first touring retrospective. Including previously unseen early works, favorite series and new montages, this 248-page survey was made in collaboration with Singh, who considers herself not just a photographer but a book artist. “The exhibition catalogue includes essays by Teju Cole and Stephanie Rosenthal, among others, and a ‘book timeline’ of the artist’s engagement with books as an art form,” the Los Angeles Review of Books writes. “The book travels from works of touching gestures that emphasize a poetic dexterity—hands and limbs dominate the composition and choreography of the photographs—to a more explicit experimentation with the book form as art or artistic structure.”