'I believe that the photographer's job is to cut a frame-sized slice out of the world around him so cleanly that if he were to put it back again, life and the world would continue to move without a stumble.' This lavish production of the finest black-and-white photographs taken by India's most distinguished photographer, Raghu Rai, proves once again that his is a mark at which all lensmen will shoot in vain. It is a silent demonstration, but an eloquent one, of what photography?and India?is all about. ? 'It is my personal opinion that he has an individual way of seeing things and reproducing them as images on bromide paper which is unsurpassed by any photo-journalist in the whole wide world' ?Norman Hall, The Times, London