PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL EDITION:
"[An] exotic five-star vacation in itself. The portraits, landscapes, and photographic studies of flora and architecture are more art than documentary, and are accompanied not by history lessons, but by masterly prose...Such words can hold their own with any pictures, even Meola's glorious photographs."
-- "New York Times" Book Review
"[An] ambitious and distinctive pairing of pictures and prose...The images are seductively beautiful; the texts are well-chosen and adroitly placed...What the book aims to convey by this weave of image and word is something essential about the cultural experience of India...the result is exhilarating and highly engaging."
"--Color" Magazine
"Undeniably exciting...the color images are gorgeous, also, there is text by such writers as Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri. This is more than just a book of pictures."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Meola has a fine eye for detail and devotes equal attention to the grand and the humble...Suffused with light and color, his images sidestep cliche to achieve an intimacy and spontaneity that readers will relish. Excerpts from such writers as Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, and V.S. Naipaul round out this breathtaking book."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Eric Meola, the photographer who shot the cover photo of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born to Run' album, has been traveling to India for more than 10 years, recording its people, landscapes, culture, and art. He sifted through 25,000 pictures from his journeys to select more than 200 images for this dazzling book."
--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Eric Meola is one of those particularly inventive and imaginative artists."
--"Rangefinder" Magazine
"From temples to color-washed images of people, India: In Word and Image presents an outstanding splash of cultural insights and color combinations...very highly recommended."
--Midwest Book Review
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Eric Meola's graphic use of color has informed his photographs for more than four decades. In 2004, Graphis Editions published his first book "The Last Places on Earth." An exhibition in England of his photographs of Bruce Springsteen, which coincided with the publication of his second book "Born to Run: The Unseen Photos" (Insight Editions, 2006), was followed in 2008 by the first edition of "INDIA: In Word & Image "(Welcome Books, NY), and an exhibit in 2009 at the Art Directors Club of New York. In 2011, Ormond Yard Press of London published his most unusual book, an oversize (18"x24," 14 lbs.) edition of photographs of Bruce Springsteen--"Born to Run Revisted"--that was limited to 500 copies. "Streets of Fire," his fifth book, was published by HarperCollins in September of 2012. Winner of numerous awards, with prints in several private collections and museums, including the National Portrait Gallery, he is a Canon "Explorer of Light."
Introduction Author
Bharati Mukherjee, award-winning author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is well known both as a writer of fiction and as a social commentator. Her most recent novel is "The Tree Bride," the second novel in a trilogy that bridges modern America and historical India. Her other novels include "Jasmine," "Leave It to Me," "Desirable Daughters," and "The Holder of the World." Her short stories are found in The Middleman and Other Stories, and Darkness.