Conditions of Visibility: Writings on Photography in Contemporary India - Hardcover

Srivatsan, R

 
9788185604282: Conditions of Visibility: Writings on Photography in Contemporary India

Synopsis

Elaborating new theoretical perspectives on visual hegemony, this book addresses the political processes of the photographic image. How does photography invoke an epistemology that subtly determines the scope and limit of what can be understood, said or done with images? Srivatsan uses gender, caste and class to serve as frames of reference for this very original and stimulating analysis. He takes into consideration a range of visual material: hand-painted cinema hoardings, the modernism of Henri Cartier-Bresson, a poster of Dr B R Ambedkar, photographs in police records and the visual politics of advertising, news photography and the new India projected in the world of tourism.

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Synopsis

Elaborating new theoretical perspectives on visual cultures, the book addresses the political processes of the photographic image. Srivatsan uses gender, caste and class to serve as frames of reference for this original and stimulating analysis. He takes into consideration a range of visual material: hand-painted cinema hoardings, the modernism of Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographs in police records and the visual politics of advertising and news photography.

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