How music found its voice in Raghu Rai’s pictures

For galore years earlier I met Raghu Rai, I encountered him done his images.

My archetypal instauration to his enactment came done his bonzer photographs of India’s large classical musicians — M.S. Subbulakshmi, Pt Bhimsen Joshi, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia, Kishori Amonkar and respective others. The images did not simply papers their performances, but held thing acold much elusive: spirit, surrender, divinity and beingness itself. They became my doorway into his immense assemblage of work. And done them, I began to recognize wherefore Raghu Rai’s photography occupies specified an unparalleled spot successful India’s taste memory.