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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...

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Autor principal: Chaudhary, Zahid R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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