Ajay Sinha

Broschiertes Buch

Photo-Attractions

An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German Camera

Fotograf: Vechten (1880-1964), Carl van

Beschreibung

A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.

Autor

AJAY SINHA is the Julia '73 and Helene '49 Herzig Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. His books include Imagining Architects: Creativity in Religious Monuments of India and the co-edited collection Bollyworld: Popular Indian Cinema through a Transnational Lens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 183mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781978830486
• ISBN-10: 1978830483
• Artikelnr.: 63430269