Documenting Industry

Photography, Aesthetics and Labor in India
Herausgeber: Roychoudhuri, Ranu; M. Brown, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume engages with the image of the labouring body against monumental machines, dams, and infrastructure and the ways in which photography engages with strands of modernist aesthetics to support new modes of seeing the changing industrial landscape and the human body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032487816
• ISBN-10: 103248781X
• Artikelnr.: 71267812

Autorenporträt

Ranu Roychoudhuri is Assistant Professor in the Performing and Visual Arts Division in the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University. She works on modern and contemporary art in South Asia with an emphasis on photography, intellectual histories of art, and art historiography. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and art magazines, curated shows for private and public institutions, and taught in the US and Indian higher education institutions. Rebecca M. Brown is a professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Her research engages in the history of art, architecture, and visual culture of South Asia and its diasporas from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her publications focus on the British colonial era, India's anti-colonial movement, art after India's independence, the politics of display in the long 1980s, KCS Paniker's language of painting, and the work of Dayanita Singh, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Rina Banerjee.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. Series editor's preface. 1 Industry, Documentary,
Aesthetics: Postcolonial Indian Photography in a Global Frame 2 Through the
"Eye of Imagination": Documentary Photography and the Aesthetics of
(Under)development 3 Laboring Families: Photographs from Sites of Industry
in India 4 Jyothi Bhatt and the Folk Art of Photography 5 "The New Temples
of Resurgent India": Visualizing Hydroelectric and Nuclear Power for a
Modern Nation 6 Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning Scale in the Archive
of Mrinalini Mukherjee 7 Bodies and Machines: Photographing Labor on
India's Industrial Frontier 8 Dayanita Singh's Machines. Index.