Afterimage of Empire - Photography in Nineteenth-Century India (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Minnesota Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2012
First published:	2012
Authors:	Zahid R. Chaudhary
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8166-7749-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8166-7749-2
Barcode:	9780816677498

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