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We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
Selected essays by Sunil Gupta
Series: Aperture Ideas
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, queer culture, postcolonial studies, and photography. It will particularly appeal to scholars, artists, curators, and activists seeking insight into cultural activism and identity politics across diverse global contexts.
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We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference offers an unparalleled firsthand account of the influential photographer and curator Sunil Gupta's writing and critical inquiry since the 1970s.
Newspaper articles, speeches, and essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organising throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery.
Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live, love, and create.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781597115285
Publisher: Aperture
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 October 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Aperture
Illustration: 20 halftone images
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 299g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Sunil Gupta (born in New Delhi, 1953) is a photographer, curator, writer, and activist. Gupta migrated to Canada at the age of fifteen. He was educated in photography at the New School, New York (1976) and the Royal College Art, London (1983). Over a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist’s diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration, and queer identity—his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history. Gupta’s work has been exhibited internationally and published in numerous monographs and catalogues, including Christopher Street, 1976 (2018) and From Here to Eternity (2020).
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