Photography in India : from archives to contemporary practice / edited by Aileen Blaney and Chinar Shah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shah, Chinar, editor.

Blaney, Aileen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--India--History.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018.

Summary:

Photography's prominence in the representation and experience of India in contemporary and historical times has not guaranteed it a position of sustained attention in research and scholarship. For a technology as all pervasive as photography, and a country as colossal as India, this scenario is somewhat of an anomaly.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Figures

Plates

Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE PHOTOGRAPHIC TIME AND MEMORY

1 In the Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive

2 Lady Hariot Dufferin's Indian Album: 'My First Efforts in Photography, 1886'

3 Itinerant Photography: Medium and Translation in the Work of Imran Channa

4 Images of Deaths and Marriages: Syrian Christian Family Albums and Oral Histories in Kerala

5 All 'Dressed Up': Costume, Fashion and Identity in the Photographs of Homai Vyarawalla

6 Putting Women in the Picture: The Role of Photography in Mobilizing Support for the Indian Emergency, 1975-77

7 Copying and De-synchronizing: Performing the Past in Contemporary Indian Photography

PART TWO PHOTOGRAPHIES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA

8 Photography at the Edge of Representation: Rethinking Photographs of Rural India

9 Interrogating 'Credible Chhattisgarh': Photography and the Construction of a New Indian State

10 Silenced Ruptures: Images from 2002 Gujarat Riots

11 Satellite Images in India: Remotely Sensed and Ambiguously Accessed

12 The Self Is as the Selfie Does

Three Propositions for the Selfie in the Digital Turn

13 The Unfolding of the Networked Image: An Oscillation between a Simple Visibility and an Invisible Complexity

14 Post-Photography and Missing Images

Afterword: The Lens and the Algorithm: From Reification to New Liquidities

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-310379-0

1-003-10379-0

1-350-02789-8

9781003103790

OCLC:

1201337395