Satyajit Ray at 70
Alok b. Nandi (Ed.), Nemai Ghosh (Phot.), Satyajit Ray at 70, Eiffel Editions, Brussels, 1991, ISBN 293001007X, Preface by Henri Cartier-Bresson
This book is a “photo-bio-graphy”: Ray seen through the eyes of the world with homage texts by Antonioni, Cartier-Bresson, Riboud, Kurosawa, Menuhin, Coppola, Rostropovich, Sen, Polanski, Scorsese, Naipaul, Rushdie … { 65 contributions collected in 1990 } and Ray seen at home and on set through the 70 photographs by Nemai Ghosh, one of his set photographer (end 60’s to early 90’s).
Contributors to “Satyajit Ray at 70” are
- Lindsay Anderson
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Govind Aravindan
- Alex Aronson
- Dame Peggy Ashcroft
- Sir Richard Attenborough
- Melvyn Bragg
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Soumitra Chatterjee
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Peter Cowie
- Louis Danvers
- Chidananda Das Gupta
- Anita Desai
- Krishna Dutta
- Ronita Dutta
- Sir Denis Forman
- Philip French
- Robi Ghosh
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
- R.P. Gupta
- Derek Hill
- Julian Crandall Hollick
- Dipankar Home
- M.F. Husain
- John Huston
- James Ivory
- Pico Iyer
- Amarnath Jayatilaka
- Nasreen Munni Kabir
- Pauline Kael
- Shaji N. Karun
- Kashiko Kawakita
- Davlat Khudanozarov
- Ben Kingsley
- Akira Kurosawa
- Mike Leigh
- Lila Majumdar
- Iqbal Masud
- Rakesh Mathur
- Sir Yehudi Menuhin
- Ismail Merchant
- Partha Mitter
- Laura Morris
- Madhabi Mukherjee
- V.S. Naipaul
- Muriel Peters
- Roman Polanski
- Dilys Powell
- James Quinn
- William Radice
- Marc Riboud
- Gaston Roberge
- Andrew Robinson
- Mstislav Rostropovitch
- Indrapramit Roy
- Salman Rushdie
- Martin Scorsese
- Mrinal Sen
- Charles Tesson
- Edward P. Thompson
- Hadelin Trinon
- André Vandenbunder
- Fred Zinneman
Connected to this book:
- After meeting Satyajit Ray in Calcutta in 1990 (now Kolkata), he shared his Cinematheque Imaginaire.
- And a text for the 3 Continents Nantes festival in 1991 (in French)
The Indian edition of the book was published in 1993
Satyajit Ray at 70: as writer, designer, actor, director, cameraman, editor, composer
photographs by Nemai Ghosh; foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson; contributions collected by Alok B. Nandi
Publisher : Point of View and Orient Longman, 1993.
ISBN: 0002160102