Between 1978 and 1989 Mitch Epstein made eight trips to India and shot tens of thousands of
photographs. He also made three films there with his Indian wife director Mira Nair. The
photographs in this book are the result of Epstein's unusual dual vantage in an extraordinarily
complicated culture: through his Indian family life and work he was both an insider and
outsider. Epstein was able to enter a wide swath of subcultures that included a striptease
cabaret the Royal Bombay Yacht Club Bollywood movie sets an old-time Punjabi wedding band
and religious pilgrims both Muslim and Hindu. In India is the fruit of Epstein's deep and
extended experience of India where separate worlds converged.
