9788185604282 - Conditions of Visibility: Writings on Photography in Contemporary India von Srivatsan, R (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xiii + 174 Figures, Illus.

pbk. Elaborating new theoretical perspectives on visual hegemony this book addresses the political processes of the photographic image How does photography invoke an epistemology that subtly determines the scope and limit of what can be understood said or done with images Srivatsan uses gender caste and class to serve as frames of reference for this very original and stimulating analysis He takes into consideration a range of visual material handpainted cinema hoardings the modernism of Henri Cartier-Bresson photographs in police records and the visual politics of advertising and news photographyThe photograph better than writing in a language produces a visible and recognizable entity as the author of a list of disorders The photograph brings a lustrous finish to the rowdysheets prime function the demarcation of social unrest as originating in specific individuals Order in the irresistible perspective we inherit from British rule can be envisioned only if disorder be individualized and safely contained indeed as Foucault says even produced within a manageable grid of information The Photograph on a Rowdysheet 200 pp.