The Coming Of Photography In India
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The Coming Of Photography In India
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Author : Christopher Pinney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
The Coming Of Photography In India written by Christopher Pinney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with India categories.
Though photography reaches as far back as the sixteenth-century’s camera obscura projects, it wasn’t until the British colonial period that amateur photographers introduced their technology to the Indian subcontinent. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, India was at the center of a representational revolution. Was photography in India simply a void, waiting to be filled by pre-existing cultural and historical practice? Or was it disruptive, throwing up new opportunities, prophesying new social formations, and bringing anxieties about formerly secluded events and practices into a newly visible sphere? The Coming of Photography in India transcends traditional cultural and technological narratives in order to present a subtle and compelling account of the limits, possibilities, and consequences of photography. Examining technology in order to explain the dynamic incarnation of photographic practice as cure, poison, and prophecy, Christopher Pinney presents a bold account that will reward anyone with an interest in India, photography, or the history of the book. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations and a large number of previously unpublished images, this volume presents a sophisticated account of the “disturbance” that photography has brought to all of our lives.
Photography In India
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Author : Nathaniel Gaskell
language : en
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Release Date : 2018
Photography In India written by Nathaniel Gaskell and has been published by Prestel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Photography categories.
India has one of the richest and most extensive histories of photography in the world with the camera arriving in the country only a few year after its invention in Europe. Organized chronologically, this book covers over 150 years of photographs, divided into ten chapters which focus on themes and genres such as archaeology and ethnography, portraiture, photojournalism, social documentary, street photography, modernism, and contemporary art. An in-depth introduction and ten short essays contextualize the photographs in light of India's journey from colonial territory, to independent nation state, to global economic superpower, along the way suggesting new arguments as to how this has been reflected in photographic practice. Over 100 Indian as well as international photographers are included in this well-researched and engaging book that includes some of the country's most iconic images, alongside the work of lesser-known artists and a wealth of previously unpublished material.
Camera Indica
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Author : Christopher Pinney
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2013-06-01
Camera Indica written by Christopher Pinney and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with Social Science categories.
A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These quiet but moving images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic anthropologist Christopher Pinney explores in Camera Indica. Studying photographic practice in India, Pinney traces photography's various purposes and goals from colonial through postcolonial times. He identifies three key periods in Indian portraiture: the use of photography under British rule as a quantifiable instrument of measurement, the later role of portraiture in moral instruction, and the current visual popular culture and its effects on modes of picturing. Photographic culture thus becomes a mutable realm in which capturing likeness is only part of the project. Lavishly illustrated, Pinney's account of the change from depiction to invention uncovers fascinating links between these evocative images and the society and history from which they emerge.
India
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Author : John Falconer
language : en
Publisher: British Library
Release Date : 2001
India written by John Falconer and has been published by British Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Photography categories.
After the public announcement of the invention of the camera in 1839, photography spread swiftly round the world, and by the early 1850s the medium had become well-established in the Indian subcontinent. In a land characterised by the variety and splendour of its architecture and landscapes, and the diversity of its peoples and customs, India offered the photographic artist an unsurpassed range of subject matter. In addition to the artistic achievements of international masters of photography like Dr John Murray and Samuel Bourne, official encouragement of the medium as a documentary tool came from the East India Company. By the mid-1850s a remarkable visual 'archive' had been created, which charted the architectural heritage and ethnic composition of the subcontinent. This book, which accompanied a major exhibition of 19th century images from India, traces the development of photography from 1850 to 1900, when the ascendency of the large format camera and print began to crumble in the face of the simplified amateur camera. Drawn from the collections of the British Library, and Howard and Jane Ricketts, the book is illustrated with some of the finest photographs produced in India during the latter half of the nineteenth century, many never previously reproduced.
India Through The Lens
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Author : Charles Allen
language : en
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Release Date : 2000
India Through The Lens written by Charles Allen and has been published by Prestel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with India categories.
"At the turn of the millennium, photography is ubiquitous and unquestioned. A century and a half ago however, notes curator and scholar Vidya Dehejia, "the simple ability to produce a photograph was in itself a marvel . . . The early decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the pursuit of a dream, an obsession with cajoling nature into a miraculous reflection upon a surface where it could be captured and retained for all time." India was at the vanguard of the explosion of photography; both Indian and foreigner (mainly British) strove to document and reveal the Indian landscape, people, and architecture. The essays in this book reveal the history and importance of photography in India, from the appeal of the panorama to the documentation of people, places, and princes - and to the outstanding Indian photographer, Lala Deen Dayal, who was unique in being esteemed by both the world of the British and the world of princely India. This book appeals to specialists and nonspecialists alike - all those who love early photography or British India are bound to enjoy India through the Lens."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Visual Histories
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Author : Malavika Karlekar
language : en
Publisher: OUP India
Release Date : 2013-03-28
Visual Histories written by Malavika Karlekar and has been published by OUP India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-28 with History categories.
Not much is known about how the coming of photography changed visual discourse or affected people's lives. Through a selection of 32 essays, each illustrated with archival photographs, this volume looks at the camera in the colonial era and in post-independent India to reveal both: history through photographs and the history of photographs in India.
Photography And Anthropology
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Author : Christopher Pinney
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2012
Photography And Anthropology written by Christopher Pinney and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Photography categories.
Photography and anthropology share strikingly parallel histories. Christopher Pinney's provocative and eminently readable account provides a polemical narrative of anthropologists' use of photography from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography 'make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable, ' and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice. Though viewed as modern and rational, this quality of photography in fact propelled anthropologists towards the 'primitive' lives of those they studied. Early anthropology celebrated photography as a physical record, whose authority and permanence promised an escape from the lack of certainty in speech. For later anthropologists, this same quality became grounds to critique an imaging practice that failed to capture movement and process. But throughout these twists and turns, anthropology as a practice of 'being there' has found itself entwined in an intimate engagement with photography as metaphor for the collection of evidence. Photography and Anthropology reveals how anthropology provides the tools to re-imagine the power and magic of all photographic practices. It presents both a history of anthropology's seduction by photography and the anthropological theory of photography. This thoroughly researched book draws upon an intimate knowledge of the history of anthropology, photography and the world's major anthropological practitioners.
A Shifting Focus
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Author : Brett Rogers
language : en
Publisher: British Council Visual Arts
Release Date : 1995
A Shifting Focus written by Brett Rogers and has been published by British Council Visual Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with India categories.
Street Dreams
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Author : Val Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Street Dreams written by Val Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Photograph collections categories.
In the studios of India's rotiographers a collection of props and backgrounds make it possible for ordinary men and women to act out their fantasies. This book presents a selection of street photography that combines the imagined and the real Western stereotypes of India, and brings the reader face to face with a vibrant vernacular culture.
Through Indian Eyes
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Author : Judith Mara Gutman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1982
Through Indian Eyes written by Judith Mara Gutman and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Nineteenth and early twentieth century photography from India.