Afterimage of Empire : Photography in Nineteenth-Century India /

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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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Main Author: Chaudhary, Zahid R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > History.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
Photographie > Inde > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Photography > India > History > 19th century.
India.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 photography, Zahid R. Chaudhary explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment. Chaudhary scrutinizes the colonial context to understand the production of sense itself, proposing a new theory of interpreting the historical difference of aesthetic forms. In rereading colonial photographic ima.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations (some color)
ISBN:9780816679508

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