Blue Book – Dayanita Singh

Blue Book is a series of images made during Dayanita Singh’s wanderings in the industrial landscapes of India. Presented by Dreamvilla Productions, India (an alias and nom de plume designed to mask Singh’s authorship), the book was displayed as a work of art in galleries and museums.

Singh is an obsessive bookmaker, constantly seeking different ways of disseminating her works. Blue Book is made of 23 postcards and everyone who really understands Blue Book needs two copies – one to collect as a piece of art and one to extract the beautiful postcards for special correspondence. This hardcover book is made of 23 color postcards (46 pages) bound into a cardboard folder, measuring 10.5 x 14.8 cm.

Artist / Author

Publishing is also a significant part of the Dayanita Singh’s practice: in her books she experiments with alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs. Here, Singh’s latest is the “book-object,” a work that is concurrently a book, an art object, an exhibition and a catalog. Learn more about Singh and her artistic practice on her website.

Sourced / excerpted from this artist’s website. (2022)