Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India / Zahid R. Chaudhary.

Main entry:

Chaudhary, Zahid R., author.

Title & Author:

Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India / Zahid R. Chaudhary.

Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]

Description:

258 pages, 12 color plates : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
Introduction: Sensation and Photography -- Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot -- Anaesthesis and a Colonial History of Shock -- Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference -- Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy -- Coda: Sensing the Past.

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 images, he shows how the histories of colonialism became aesthetically, mimetically, and perceptually generative. He suggests that photography arrived in India not only as a technology of the colonial state but also as an instrument that eventually extended and transformed sight for photographers and the body politic, both British and Indian. Ultimately, Afterimage of Empire uncovers what the colonial history of the medium of photography can teach us about the making of the modern perceptual apparatus, the transformation of aesthetic experience, and the linkages between perception and meaning."-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

0816677484 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780816677481 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0816677492 (pb)
9780816677498 (pb)
9780816679508
0816679509

Subject:

Photography India History 19th century.
Photographie Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
PHOTOGRAPHY History.
HISTORY Asia India & South Asia.
Photography.
Kolonialismus
Dokumentarfotografie
Photographie.
India.
Indien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277669
Call No.: BIB 212546
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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