| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages, [12] color plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Sensation and Photography; ONE: Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot; TWO: Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock; THREE: Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference; FOUR: Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy; CODA: Sensing the Past; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Translations; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Photography -- India -- History -- 19th century
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
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Photography
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011047428 |
| ISBN |
9780816679508 |
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0816679509 |
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1452946027 |
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9781452946023 |
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