Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Press,
2012
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages, [12] color plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816679508 0816679509 1452946027 9781452946023 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
