Chandigarh Revealed : Le Corbusier’s City Today
Copyright : Shaun Fynn
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press & Mapin Publishing (April 4, 2017)
Photography and text by Shaun Fynn.
Foreword by Maristella Casciato.
Essay by Vikramàditya Prakàsh.
In 1950, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited legendary French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier to embark on one of the greatest experiments in urban planning history: to build on the plains of Punjab a new capital—Chandigarh, a city whose monumental modernism promised to free India from the fetters of colonial tradition and lay the groundwork for an independent and utopian future. Nicknamed the City Beautiful, Chandigarh has been called “one of the perfect cities of the world in terms of architecture, cultural growth, and modernisation,” and in 2016 its Capitol Complex was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Six decades after its founding, photographer and designer Shaun Fynn was granted unprecedented access to turn his lens on Le Corbusier’s city and capture what is rarely seen: the living metropolis behind the master plan. Fynn’s captivating images of the city and its inhabitants observe how the poetry of the architect’s compositions have been shaped by the tumult of everyday life and worn by the forces of time.
Chandigarh Revealed combines striking photographs, texts by Le Corbusier authorities Maristella Casciato and Vikramaditya Prakash, an interview with one of the last remaining architects from Le Corbusier’s team, M. N. Sharma, and custom-designed maps to create an astonishing and intimate portrait of a legendary city.
Chandigarh Revealed was nominated as one of the top ten architecture books of 2017 by Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) Berlin
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Book design by Giles Dunn, Punkt Ltd.
Hardcover : 240 pages, $60.00 / €50 / INR 3500 / £45.00
Departures : A Journey With India
Copyright : Shaun Fynn
Publisher : Oro Editions/Goff Books (December, 2022)
Photography and text by Shaun Fynn
Nowhere is the human condition more apparent than in India, a window to life, a window to all. Departures presents a journey through place, life, and our preparations for departure from the material to the ethereal. To journey with India is to reflect; a portal to the experiences of a universal human condition, Departures weaves together a sometimes haunting story of modernity and urbanization with an ancient, diverse, and complex land.
A work in the humanist and social realist genre of photography, Departures reflects on the twenty-first-century urban stage contrasting the gritty realism of urban life, work, and the struggles and joys of the everyday with the dramatic beauty of people, ritual, belief, and landscape.
Created from an archive of 20 years photographing, living, and working in India, Departures goes beyond the often incidental or serendipitous nature of street photography to open the door and explore the life within..
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Book Design : StudioFYNN
Hardcover : 256 pages, $60.00 / €50 / £45.00