Camera Indica

the Social Life of Indian Photographs

Christopher Pinney (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1997
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-86189-006-1 (ISBN)

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Exploring the changing role of photographic portraiture in India over the last 150 years, this is an anthropological study of photographic practice in the everyday realm of Indian society. The book combines historical and ethnographic perspectives, based on the author's own experiences in India. Pinney looks at significant "moments" in Indian photography and considers the ways in which photographic portraiture reflects changing political interests, a decreasing desire to fix identity, and a broader popular visual culture. A distinctive post-colonial photographic practice emerges, characterized by a sophisticated inventiveness using techniques such as overpainting, collage and composite printing. Much of the book is concerned with the production of such images by studios in a small central-Indian town, and it aims to provide readers with a sense of their use and significance.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.1997
Zusatzinfo	40 colour and 90 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-86189-006-0 / 1861890060
ISBN-13	978-1-86189-006-1 / 9781861890061
Zustand	Neuware