Photography in India

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From Archives to Contemporary Practice

Summary

Photography in India delves into the complex history and contemporary practice of photography within the vast cultural landscape of India. It considers photography's role as an artistic, documentary, and everyday medium, addressing both historical archives and new photographic expressions shaped by India's rapid transformation and technological advances.
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Ideal for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Indian culture and photography, as well as those interested in visual arts and contemporary social change.

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.

A first of its kind critical investigation of historical and contemporary photographic practices in India, engaging with how the Indian context inflects questions of medium, materiality, representation, history and memory, image circulation and digitalisation.

Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350141384

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Contributors:

Edited by Aileen Blaney
Edited by Chinar Shar

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 602g

Pages: 272

Collections

Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.