Overview

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. Photography in India explores elements of the past, present and future of photography in the context of India through speculation and reflection on photography as an artistic, documentary and everyday practice. The perspectives of writers, theorists, curators and artists are selectively brought to bear upon known as well as previously unseen photographic archives, together with changes in photographic practice that have been synchronous with contemporary India’s rapid urban and rural transformation and the technological shift from chemistry and light to programming and algorithms. Essential reading for anyone interested in Indian photography, this book binds insights into a history of photography with its contemporary development, consolidating wide-ranging thinking on the topic and setting the agenda for future research.

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Author:   Aileen Blaney ,  Chinar Shar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Weight:   0.602kg
ISBN:  

9781350141384

ISBN 10:   1350141380
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   06 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Anna Fox, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK 1. Introduction Aileen Blaney, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India Part I: Photographic Time and Memory 1. In the Theatre of Memory: The Work of Contemporary Art in the Photographic Archive Raqs Media Collective 2. Lady Harriot Dufferin’s Indian Album: ‘My First Efforts in Photography, 1886’ Denise A. Wilson 3. Itinerant Photography: Medium and Translation in the work of Imran Channa Zahid Chaudhary 4. Images of Deaths and Marriages: Syrian Christian Family Albums and Oral Histories in Kerala Pooja Sagar 5. All ‘Dressed Up’: Costume, Fashion and Identity in the Photographs of Homai Vyarawalla Sabeena Gadihoke 6. Putting Women in the Picture: The Role of Photography in Mobilizing Support for the Indian Emergency (1975-77) Gemma Scott 7. Copying and De-synchronizing: Performing the Past in Contemporary Indian Photography.Christopher Pinney Part II: Photographies in Contemporary India 8. Photography at the Edge of Representation?: Rethinking Photographs of Rural India Kathleen L. Wyma 9. Interrogating ‘Credible Chhattisgarh’: Photography and the Construction of a New Indian State Avrati Bhatnagar 10. Silenced Ruptures, Images from 2002 Gujarat Riots Chinar Shah 11. Satellite Images in India: Remotely Sensed and Ambiguously Accessed Muthatha Ramanathan 12. The Self Is as the Selfie Does: Three Propositions for the Selfie in the Digital Turn Nishant Shah 13. The Unfolding of the Networked Image: An Oscillation between a Simple Visibility and an Invisible Complexity Fabien Charuau 14. Post-Photography and Missing Images Joan Fontcuberta, Translation by Ana Mahé Afterword Fred Richin

Reviews

This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in photography in India, especially its use in artistic expression and remediation through archives. - Katja Muller, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

""The diversity and cogency of the arguments and experiences examined in each essay make Photography in India a very welcome read for anyone interested in the subject. This collection of essays offers a refreshing, highly engaging contribution that enriches scholarship in the field of Indian photography."" --Visual Studies ""This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in photography in India, especially its use in artistic expression and remediation through archives."" --South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ""Photography in India is thus a book that surprises with diversity and depth of subject matter, stoking future research interests in various areas."" --Unbound

The diversity and cogency of the arguments and experiences examined in each essay make Photography in India a very welcome read for anyone interested in the subject. This collection of essays offers a refreshing, highly engaging contribution that enriches scholarship in the field of Indian photography. --Visual Studies This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in photography in India, especially its use in artistic expression and remediation through archives. --South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

The strength lies in the inclusion of research on areas of photography that have not been previously written about and chapters on a diverse range of photographic practice ... from images of women during the emergency in India to ones on romantic images in social media, commercial photographic practices, as well as on visualisations of rurality and urbanity. -- Anandi Ramamurthy, Sheffield Hallam University, UK This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in photography in India, especially its use in artistic expression and remediation through archives. * Katja Muller, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *

"""The diversity and cogency of the arguments and experiences examined in each essay make Photography in India a very welcome read for anyone interested in the subject. This collection of essays offers a refreshing, highly engaging contribution that enriches scholarship in the field of Indian photography."" --Visual Studies ""This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in photography in India, especially its use in artistic expression and remediation through archives."" --South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ""Photography in India is thus a book that surprises with diversity and depth of subject matter, stoking future research interests in various areas."" --Unbound"

"""The diversity and cogency of the arguments and experiences examined in each essay make Photography in India a very welcome read for anyone interested in the subject. This collection of essays offers a refreshing, highly engaging contribution that enriches scholarship in the field of Indian photography."" --Visual Studies ""This book is a rich resource for anyone interested in photography in India, especially its use in artistic expression and remediation through archives."" --South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"

Author Information

Aileen Blaney is an educator, writer and researcher with an M.Phil and Ph.D. in Film Studies from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. At Srishti, Aileen teaches in the PhD program, is Course Leader for the Postgraduate program in Screen Studies and delivers ‘General Studies’ courses in film, photography and visual theory and criticism at undergraduate level. Chinar Shah is a photo-based artist from India. She currently is a course leader for Photography at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.

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