This book is a collection of photographic portraits of writers, artists and musicians taken during the last thirty years by the New York-based photographer, Arvind Garg.
The list of subjects includes major literary and musical figures of international renown of the last quarter of the twentieth century, such as novelists Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, Paul Auster, Gore Vidal, Michael Odantje; theater personalities Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Peter Sellars, Eugene Ionesco ; Nobel laureates Doris Lessing, Joseph Brodsky; poets Stanley Kunitz, Allen Ginsberg, Jorge Luis Borges; dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pilar Rioja; international writers such as Haruki Murakami, R. K. Narayan; composer Philip Glass; jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Sun Ra, Dewey and Joshua Redman; folk singer Pete Seeger; filmmakers Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Jonathan Demme, Melvin Van Peebles; Hollywood legend Sidney Poitier and Bollywood stars Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar; Indian classical musicians Hariprasad Chaurasia, Zakir Hussain, Bismillah Khan; photographers Annie Leibovitz, Eugene Richards, Joe Rosenthal; painter and photogapher Stella Snead; fiber sculptor Lenore Lawney, and many many more.
With his educational background in literature and his love of art and music, Arvind Garg has always felt drawn to creators of art and literature, and with camera always in hand he is prepared to photograph them whenever there is an opportunity, which is not too infrequent in New York where he has lived since 1985.