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Visual Histories: Photography in the Popular Imagination

Visual Histories: Photography in the Popular Imagination


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Not much is known about how the coming of photography changed visual discourse or affected people's lives. Divided into two sections, this selection of 32 essays, each illustrated with archival photographs, looks at the camera in the colonial era and in post-independent India. In the nineteenth century, the camera and the studio became necessary prostheses in the new engagement between the colonized and the rulers. Europeans in India-of whom the British were the largest in number-were the initial users of the photographic studio. Early studio images of the sahib-civil servant, lawyer, tea planter, missionary, and so on-are among the first available visuals; soon the memsahib appeared at his side with or without self-conscious offspring. The events of 1857 marked a watershed in photography in India. By this time, as the urban middle classes started patronizing photographic studios, these became instrumental in fracturing notions of space and visibility: where the use of public space was governed by the discriminatory practices of race and gender, the photographic studio became a shared locale. Interestingly, Indian entrepreneurs started investing in studios and some like Lala Deen Dayal became noted photographers. The second section looks at some such moments, and studio photographs initially focused on the new Indian professional-the doctor, lawyer, engineer, and civil servant-and then with wife and children. It moves on to the emergence of the emancipated Indian woman, the horror of Partition, and finally to independent India and the work of Sunil Janah and Homai Vyarawalla. Together the 32 essays included in the volume document both: history through photographs and the history of photographs in India.

Table of Contents:
Introduction; THE COLONIAL EYE: Under Canvas and Within Compounds; 'Fixing' the Subject; A Raja's Realm; A Performative Space; The Photograph and its Accoutrements; Glass-plate Negatives in Bullock Carts; Parda and a Poniard; Shooting the Sublime; The Empire and an Aficionado; Through a Prism Darkly; Theatre of War; Sites of Past Conflict; A Sky of Inky Tint; A Racy Counter-Narrative; Postcards from Home; Panoply of the Raj; IMAGING INDIA: Reading the Pose; Ephemeral Encounters; Cameras in the Classroom; A Grand Old Man; Tales of an Elephant and a Mule; Imaging the Other; A Child Widow's Story; A Dancer in the Darkroom; Ways of Engaging; Sacred Spaces; Views Behind the Veil; Memorializing the Mahatma; A Monsoon of Hatred and Despair; An Iconic Observer; Histories on the Wall; The 'Second Creature'; Readings

About the Author :
Malavika Karlekar is Editor, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi.

Review :
Visual Histories:Photography in the Popular Imagination is a delicate read, combining a unique and multifaceted form of close analysis of photographs with eloquent prose that in instances enthralls the reader with masterfully constructed complex sentences and on others, subtly humors her with the flavorful flourishes of Victorian expression ... it will be of use to distinguished scholars in the field and feed the appetite of readers interested in the history of photography


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198090267
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP India
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 466 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198090269
  • Publisher Date: /12/2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Photography in the Popular Imagination
  • Width: 162 mm


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