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Published by Yoda Press, New Delhi 2008

WISH YOU WERE HERE: Memories of a gay life

"It is here that the personal and the intimate remain sacred but become both public and political. This is sexuality at its most delicate but also its most powerful. Perhaps it is odd to be grateful for a book as its editor. Yet if Sunil Gupta's images are to teach us anything, I can and must be all of editor, subject, friend, and colleague, all at once.

Part of the first rank of a creative 'migrant' generation which became increasingly visible on the global visual art scene in the 1980s, Sunil Gupta welds together a new language of aesthetics, art, and politics in his work. Wish You Were Here is more than just a memoir of a life, it is a journey through the creation of a new visual vocabulary that transformed words like diaspora, sexuality, sex, migration, home, AIDS, and disease into images that revealed and provoked other ways of seeing and understanding. Documenting how the intimate and the personal became political in places as different and as similar as Delhi, London, San Francisco and Tilonia, it is a fiercely contemporary work which will define new directions in Indian visual art as well as in ongoing debates about difference and sexuality."
© Gautam Bhan, Sexuality Series Editor

​Retail Price                 Rs 995 / US$ 30
Binding                        Hardback
Publication Date        October 2008
ISBN                            978-81-906668-0-0
Extent                          128 pp
Trim                             8.25 x 6.25 inches
Illustrations                120 colour photographs

Available from:
Scholarswithoutborders
Cambridge University Press India

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  • Photography
    • Arrival
    • Songs of Deliverance — Part I
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    • Helmut Lang Christopher Street
    • Sun City
    • The New Pre-Raphaelites
    • Love, Undetectable
    • Women in Love
    • Stockwell
    • Mr Malhotra's Party
    • Country: Portrait of an Indian Village
    • Imagining Childhood
    • Love and Light
    • Tales of a City: Delhi
    • Homelands
    • From Here to Eternity
    • Trespass 3
    • Trespass 2
    • Trespass 1
    • "Pretended" Family Relationships
    • Exiles
    • Lovers: Ten Years On
    • Reflections of the Black Experience
    • Asians / Bradford
    • London 1982
    • Christopher Street, New York 1976
    • Friends & Lovers: Coming Out in Montréal in the 1970s
    • Social Security
  • Books
    • Come Out
    • We Were Here : Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
    • London 1982
    • From Here To Eternity
    • Lovers Ten Years On
    • Christopher Street
    • Delhi: Communities of Belonging
    • Queer
    • Wish You Were Here
    • Pictures From Here
    • Exiles
    • Trespass
    • Disrupted Borders
    • An Economy of Signs
    • Ecstatic Antibodies
  • Video
  • Curating
    • Same Difference
    • Fernando Arias
    • Divine Facades
    • Simryn Gill
    • The New Republics
    • Joy Gregory
    • Stevie Bezencenet
  • Newsletters
    • 2024
    • 2023
  • Columns
    • A Return from Exile
    • Relative Values
    • The End of Marriage
    • A Laying on of Hands
    • City of Dreams
    • Oral History
    • Pride and Prejudice
  • Magazine Work
  • Press
  • About
  • Contact