Dayanita Singh, Museum of Machines

Dayanita Singh’s Museum of Machines makes a monument out of these doubts and questions, at once ironic and imbued with unexpected human feeling. Two great traditions of modern photography open out behind this body of work: the typological photography of the Bechers in Germany, and the industrial photography that became part of a public visual language of industry, commerce and national sentiment in India after the country became an independent nation in 1947