The sketch shows a shot treatment for the film 'The Chess Players'. It also shows British army marching towards Awadh. This sketch is created by Nemai Ghosh.
- Identifier
- ngma-16307
- Note
- Nemai Ghosh, born in 1934, Bengal is most eminently known as Satyajit Ray's photo- biographer . Initially an active member of a Bengali theatre group Chalachal, Nemai Ghosh started his photographic pursuits in 1967-68 on the sets of Satyajit Ray's children's fantasy Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969). Nemai Ghosh earned for himself the reputation of being the most distinctive Satyajit Ray photographer, visually documenting the master director very intimately on the sets of his films for over two decades. Nemai Ghosh was passionate about cinema and wanted to depict the perceptive insights and creative craft that Ray employed in the making of his films that have mostly remained unrecorded. He has captured with utmost precision the rare moments which speak volumes of Satyajit Ray's treatment of film making and his involvement with all its aspects from screenplay, to music compostion, to costumes, dialogues etc. Nemai Ghosh's photographs have for the longest span now enacted as the only link between the filmmaker and his audience lending an insight into the personna of the film maker. Besides his close association with of Satyajit Ray, Nemai Ghosh also worked with other eminent filmmakers working in films and television as Ritwik Ghatak, Gautam Ghosh and M S Sathyu, to name a few. His collection of photographs on experimental theatre in Kolkata and its neighbourhood serves as illustrated memoirs capturing the characteristic personalities of renowned directors and theatrists of that time like Shombhu Mitra, Utpal Dutt, Tripti Mitra, Badal Sircar, etc over the last forty years. Expanding the scope of his work beyond films and theatre, Nemai Ghosh through his lens has also captured in pictorial narratives the changing landscape of Kolkata over the last 50 years. His works were published in a series of stunning black and white photographs, capturing the city's vivacious pulse in the most spontaneous of expressions. The series also included incredibly candid shots of some of the city's most well-known personalities. In late 1990s, Nemai Ghosh undertook the project of visually documenting and recording the tribal life set in the remote regions of Kutch, Gujarat; Bastar in Chattisgarh and Bonda Hills, Arunachal Pradesh. His work entailed making portraiture of the inhabitants of these regions even as they are rapidly entwined in the folds of urbanisation, thereby losing their distinctive identities. Nemai Ghosh through his camera has also delved into the forays of Indian modern and contemporary art, peeping into the private work spaces of eminent Indian artists like Manjit Bawa, M. F. Husain, Satish Gujral, S.H. Raza and many others. His intentions being to unveil the idiosyncratic ways of different artists, varying from self analysis to a frenzied gesture as well as to demonstrate the engagement between the artist and the artwork. Focusing on the creative process rather than the finished artwork, Nemai Ghosh has managed to give the spectator an insider's view and throw light upon the artists' modus operandi by capturing their various moods and postures while they are absorbed in creating their own extraordinary world. Some of his prominent publications include: Satyajit Ray at 70 (1991) with a foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), Barefoot Light (2002) with the NGO Sanlaap, Dramatic Moments (2000), Ray and the Blind Painter: An Odyssey Into the Inner Eye (2004) and Manikda: Memories of Satyajit Ray (2011). Nemai Ghosh lives and works in Kolkata.
- Pages
- 51.1 x 71.5 cm
- Published in
- India
- Type
- Sketch
