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To Reach the Source: The Stepwells of India - Hardcover

Cambon, Claudio

 
9781961856349: To Reach the Source: The Stepwells of India
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1961856344 ISBN 13: 9781961856349
Verlag: Oro Editions, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A photography book about a unique and magnificent architectural form that remains unknown to most people outside (and even within) India.

With steps leading down to the water's edge, stepwells are inverted buildings that descend several stories below ground. Often, they are as monumental and ornate as a church, and this is intentional. They are a source of water, a gathering space, and a temple all at once. Stepwells create a visual and spatial experience unlike any other, in which the below-ground remains connected to the sun and sky above. There are thousands of stepwells across the Indian Subcontinent, many of them 500-1,000 years old, each one different from the other. Most lie abandoned and overlooked, in varying states of preservation or, more often, disrepair, but they remain beautiful and compelling.

The 48 photographs in this book were made across India to convey the beauty and diversity of these structures and the striking ambiances they elicit. A brief text accompanies the images to provide history and context, interspersed with several architectural drawings by Tanvi Jain. The images seek to give readers a sense of what it feels like to immerse oneself in such a unique, meditative space, and to be impelled towards the very source of life: water.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Claudio Cambon has worked as a photographer for more than 30 years, and on the Indian Subcontinent for more than 25 of them. He has worked, exhibited, published, taught, and lectured across the world. He is currently residing in France.

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“Sunlight shifts less perceptibly within the well, and with that, one’s sense of time blurs somewhat, the minutes and the hours flowing by effortlessly as one contemplates the impressive surrounding structure, and the water within it. This sensation of immersing oneself within a space--which in turn is immersed in the water--becomes a kind of open-eyed meditation. It is like seeing a reflection of our world on the surface, but from within that reflection.  A stepwell renders the water’s many meanings manifest, immanent, palpable; the space encourages us to become mindful of the essential, sacred nature of water, even though this life force or energy is not personified or named. It provides a kind of darshan, the moment when a Hindu devotee experiences a connection with the divine and comes to feel blessed.”

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Verlag
Oro Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1961856344
ISBN 13 
9781961856349
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
114
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