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Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India
Jodi Throckmorton
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Description for Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India
Hardback. Features contemporary artists who mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition. Num Pages: 160 pages, 107 color. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AGC; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1268.
Two generations after the exultation of Independence and the concurrent horrors of Partition, contemporary artists mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition. Taking history into their own hands, figures such as Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Jitish Kallat, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Vivan Sundaram, and Surekha draw on a diverse range of sources, from ethnographic photographs made at the height of the British occupation to hand-painted studio portraits and stills from Bollywood movies. Weighing the ... Read more
Two generations after the exultation of Independence and the concurrent horrors of Partition, contemporary artists mine the uneasy history of photography in India as a means to challenge outmoded narratives, share hidden stories, and make personal connections with tradition. Taking history into their own hands, figures such as Nandan Ghiya, Gauri Gill, Jitish Kallat, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, Vivan Sundaram, and Surekha draw on a diverse range of sources, from ethnographic photographs made at the height of the British occupation to hand-painted studio portraits and stills from Bollywood movies. Weighing the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520285699
SKU
V9780520285699
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About Jodi Throckmorton
Jodi Throckmorton was recently appointed Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She previously served as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University. Throckmorton was Associate Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art from 2007 to 2013, during the conception and organization of this project, and ... Read more
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