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Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India

This volume provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photograph...

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Main Author: Chaudhary, Zahid R. (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2012
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Online Access:http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/upso-ebooks-art/dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816677481.001.0001
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Afterimage of empire
Author Notes:Zahid R. Chaudhary
E-Book Packages:Oxford University Press : Minnesota Scholarship Online / Art
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Summary:This volume provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photography, this book explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment. The book scrutinises the colonial context to understand the production of sense itself, proposing a new theory of interpreting the historical difference of aesthetic forms.
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (1 online resource (258 pages, 12 colour plates))
ISBN:9781452946023