Camera Indica The Social Life of Indian Photographs

Name: Camera Indica The Social Life of Indian Photographs
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ISBN: 9780226668659

ISBN-10: 0226668657

ISBN-13: 9780226668659

Edition: 1997

Authors: Christopher Pinney

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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…

Book details

List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/11/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Note on Transliteration


Preface


Prologue



'Stern Fidelity' and 'Penetrating Certainty'



Indian Eyes



Chambers of Dreams


Epilogue


Glossary


References


Select Bibliography


List of Illustrations


Index