Photo Peshawar

Language: English

Published by Mapin Publishing, 2018

9385360469 / 9789385360466

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Contents: Foreword by Omar Khan. 1. Introduction. 2. Photo Peshawar: the catalogue. Photo Peshawar delves into the largely unexplored culture of photography in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar from the 1940s to the present day. Photography in Peshawar has historically and culturally found itself caught between the creative and conservative forces of both India and Afghanistan. Variously borne of British rule, the Partition of India, war in neighbouring Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, local tribal law, a historical prohibition on image-making in Islam, the practice of purdah (the veiling of females in public), and the regional movie industry, there is a tangible stress between the practice of photography as it is pursued and the culture in which it is lived. With nearly hundred and fifty photographs, each more stunning than the earlier, photography as craft is what this splendid volume examines-photography at the living, bleeding intersection of culture, war, frontier and fantasy, the sheer human inventiveness that results from a magnificent and tragic brew of technology and history.…

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Title
Photo Peshawar
Author
Sean Foley and Lukas Birk
Publisher
Mapin Publishing
Publication year
2018
Condition
New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
9385360469
ISBN 13
9789385360466
Edition
1st Edition

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