India 50/50 is a photographic and editorial work consisting of 50 black & white images, taken by the visual artist Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo, during his 50 days journey around this Country. Only one photograph is chosen by each working day.
In these enigmatic images, India is portrayed in its ancestral poetic essence (resulting in a non-intententional homage to classic photographers), as well as in its apparent contemporary ironic nonsense.
The particularity of the artist’s point of view is that, paradoxically, in both cases India could be any other place in the world and only India.
Two prologues have been specifically written for this project, produced by Irma Aponte Acosta: one by the Mexican philosopher and poet Elsa Cross (Universidad Nacional de México) and another one by the French researcher and critic Jean Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University). The original graphic design merges two books in one, giving the reader the possibility to start from the front or from the back.
Catalogue technical specifications
Photographs Alejandro Gómez de Tuddo
Foreword Elsa Cross /Fewzia Bedjaoui
Afterword Jean Phillipe Imbert
Language English
Publisher Uroboros~Basilisco
ISBN 978-607-96585-0-2
First edition 2014
Technical specifications
Cover Hard
Format Landscape
Size 11.5 x 15 in (extended 23 x 15 in)
Extent 128 pages
Copies 1000 (600 in spanish & 400 in english)
Materials
Cover 2 mm. frayboard, wrapped with cialux black cloth & embossing
Sleeve 200 g. glossy paper with matte film lamination
Ends 210 g. wood free paper gray pearl color
Interior 210 g. GardaPat Klassica paper
Printing
Sleeve 3 c x 0 (duotone + PMS)
Ends 1c x 0
Inside duotone + 2 pages 4c x 4c
Binding
Hand sawn