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  title info:
    title: To reach the source
    sub title: the stepwells of India
  name:
    name part: Cambon, Claudio
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author,
    role:
      role term: photographer.
  name:
    name part: Jain, Tanvi
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 109 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans ; 24 x 29 cm.
  abstract: A photography book about a unique and magnificent architectural form that remains unknown to most people outside (and even within) India. With steps leading down to the water’s edge, stepwells are inverted buildings that descend several stories below ground. Often, they are as monumental and ornate as a church, and this is intentional. They are a source of water, a gathering space and a temple all at once. Stepwells create a visual and spatial experience unlike any other, in which the below-ground remains connected to the sun and sky above. There are thousands of stepwells across the Indian Subcontinent, many of them 500-1,000 years old, each one different from the other. Most lie abandoned and overlooked, in varying states of preservation or, more often, disrepair, but they remain beautiful and compelling. The 48 photographs in this book were made across India to convey the beauty and diversity of these structures and the striking ambiances they elicit. A brief text accompanies the images to provide history and context, interspersed with several architectural drawings by Tanvi Jain. The images seek to give readers a sense of what it feels like to immerse oneself in such a unique, meditative space and to be impelled towards the very source of life: water.
  note: photographs and text by Claudio Cambon ; with drawings by Tanvi Jain.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Stepwells
    geographic: India
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    topic: Water and architecture
    geographic: India
    genre: Pictorial works
  classification: NA2542.8 .C36 2024
  classification: 725/.9
  identifier: 9781961856349
  identifier: 1961856344
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240725
    record change date: 20260714145407.2
    record identifier: in00005617097