Report by Santanu Ganguly, New Delhi: Famous landscape photographer, Ashok Dilwali’s book, ‘Nicholas Roerich/Ashok Dilwali: Inspired by the Himalayas,’ was released by Dr. Karan Singh, MP, at an impressive function held in New Delhi’s India International Centre on Jan. 23, 2013. Renowned art critic and curator, Dr. Alka Pande, was the Guest of Honor on the occasion.
The book, published by Niyogi Books is a pictorial tribute to the great Russian painter Nicholas Roerich, and captures the Russian’s Himalayan landscapes in photographs. It contains over 120 rare photographs and 10 paintings of the mighty Himalayas and focusses on Dilwali’s magic through lenses. The author evokes the splendour and spirit of these awe-inspiring landscapes that Roerich had painted. Some of the photographs measure as big as 85X30 cms.
Dilwali seeks to find elements that inspired the great master to paint. He has tried to bring in the same features in his photographs—the elements of clouds, sheer mountain faces, valleys, snowscaps dawns, and dusks that may have persuaded the master to translate that magic on the canvas.
“Roerich’s fascination of the Himalayas led him to paint them in every season and time of the day, from every angle, light and view”, says Dr. Alka Pande, in her foreword to the book and adds that Ashok Dilwali has been taken in with Roerich’s iridescent colors and pictorial landscapes, where light appears almost as if it were refracted through stained glass. Whether it was a semi-frozen Indus River or a miniature rainbow in Tibet, Dilwali renews his art with a sense of wonder.
With this book, Niyogi Books has joined the select league of publishers who have come out with large format coffee table books.
Ashok Dilwali has been a photographer for forty years. Although his work spans a wide range, including commercial, industrial and portraiture, it is his landscape photography for which he is best known. He, undoubtedly, reigns supreme in mountain photography in India, and has mastered the art of capturing the exact mood at appropriate angles and presents the Himalayas, its people and places in a form and style never seen before.
Dilwali has held several exhibitions of his photographs and has contributed to the Incredible India (Ministry of Tourism) campaign. He won two gold medals in the International Photography Competition held in Austria in 2005 and 2006. Ashok Dilwali has more than twenty photography publications to his credit.
Niyogi Books, a premier book publisher, has been regularly publishing books on Indian culture, religion, history along with biographies of eminent personalities. It has lately entered in the field of fiction. Recently, three of its titles won awards for ‘Excellence in Publishing instituted by the Federation of Indian Publishers. These include Mapping India, Rabindranath Tagore: A Pictorial Biography and M F Hussain: A Pictorial Tribute.
Title: Nicholas Roerich/Ashok Dilwali: Inspired by the Himalayas
Price: Rs 3,000
Size: 43x31 cms
174 pages; All color
125 photographs, 10 paintings
Hard back with jacket
ISBN: 978-93-81523-51-3
The book, published by Niyogi Books is a pictorial tribute to the great Russian painter Nicholas Roerich, and captures the Russian’s Himalayan landscapes in photographs. It contains over 120 rare photographs and 10 paintings of the mighty Himalayas and focusses on Dilwali’s magic through lenses. The author evokes the splendour and spirit of these awe-inspiring landscapes that Roerich had painted. Some of the photographs measure as big as 85X30 cms.
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| Ashok Dilwali’s New Book “Nicholas Roerich” |
Dilwali seeks to find elements that inspired the great master to paint. He has tried to bring in the same features in his photographs—the elements of clouds, sheer mountain faces, valleys, snowscaps dawns, and dusks that may have persuaded the master to translate that magic on the canvas.
“Roerich’s fascination of the Himalayas led him to paint them in every season and time of the day, from every angle, light and view”, says Dr. Alka Pande, in her foreword to the book and adds that Ashok Dilwali has been taken in with Roerich’s iridescent colors and pictorial landscapes, where light appears almost as if it were refracted through stained glass. Whether it was a semi-frozen Indus River or a miniature rainbow in Tibet, Dilwali renews his art with a sense of wonder.
With this book, Niyogi Books has joined the select league of publishers who have come out with large format coffee table books.
Ashok Dilwali has been a photographer for forty years. Although his work spans a wide range, including commercial, industrial and portraiture, it is his landscape photography for which he is best known. He, undoubtedly, reigns supreme in mountain photography in India, and has mastered the art of capturing the exact mood at appropriate angles and presents the Himalayas, its people and places in a form and style never seen before.
Dilwali has held several exhibitions of his photographs and has contributed to the Incredible India (Ministry of Tourism) campaign. He won two gold medals in the International Photography Competition held in Austria in 2005 and 2006. Ashok Dilwali has more than twenty photography publications to his credit.
Niyogi Books, a premier book publisher, has been regularly publishing books on Indian culture, religion, history along with biographies of eminent personalities. It has lately entered in the field of fiction. Recently, three of its titles won awards for ‘Excellence in Publishing instituted by the Federation of Indian Publishers. These include Mapping India, Rabindranath Tagore: A Pictorial Biography and M F Hussain: A Pictorial Tribute.
Title: Nicholas Roerich/Ashok Dilwali: Inspired by the Himalayas
Price: Rs 3,000
Size: 43x31 cms
174 pages; All color
125 photographs, 10 paintings
Hard back with jacket
ISBN: 978-93-81523-51-3
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