Boswell with a camera
India, May 9 -- Faces and Facets: Satyajit Ray in Colour (first published in 2011) features text by Ray's biographer, Andrew Robinson, and photographs by Nemai Ghosh, whom Ray once referred to as "Boswell with a camera, instead of a pen".
Ghosh was Ray's photographer from 1968 until the auteur's death in 1992. Before he turned to the lens, Ghosh was part of actor-director Utpal Dutt's Little Theatre in Calcutta and played the lead in the 1959 play Angar. A friend who owed him Rs 240 happened to find a Cannonette QL-16 fixed-lens camera left behind in a taxi. Ghosh wrote off the debt in exchange.
He was introduced to Ray by the filmmaker's art director Bansi Chandragupta. Ray liked Ghosh's pictures and asked him to join his production unit in 1968. Ghosh's other books include Satyajit Ray at 70 (1991), with a foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), with Andrew Robinson. An exhibition of the images in Faces and Facets opened at DAG, New Delhi, earlier this week....
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