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Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India /
Afterimage of Empire 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 p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Sensation and Photography; ONE: Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot; TWO: Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock; THREE: Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference; FOUR: Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy; CODA: Sensing the Past; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Translations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.