Camera Indica by Christopher Pinney

Camera Indica by Christopher Pinney

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Explores the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, tracing photography's various purposes and goals from colonial to post-colonial times. This study identifies three key periods in Indian portraiture: under British rule; later for moral instruction; and in modern popular culture.

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Camera Indica by Christopher Pinney

This text explores the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, tracing photography's various purposes and goals from colonial to post-colonial times. It identifies three key periods in Indian portraiture: under British rule; later for moral instruction; and in modern popular culture. Photographic culture thus became a mutable realm in which capturing likeness was only part of the project. This account of the change from depiction to invention uncovers links between these images and the society and history from which they emerge.
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ISBN 13 9780226668666
ISBN 10 0226668665
Title Camera Indica
Author Christopher Pinney
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1998-04-11
Number of pages 192
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