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Unframed explores some of the nuanced facets of lens-based media with a focus on South Asia, specifically charting the development of photography in the region from the eighteenth century to the present. Thirty-one texts, organised into five separate yet related sections, analyse the general history and specific meta-histories of the medium in our region through overlapping trajectories, reflecting the depth of image practises in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar. This collection/reader analyses emerging themes, testimonies, and socio-cultural transformations through important dialogues about the development, implementation, and subsequent dissemination of lens-based work, drawing on the larger arc of South Asian visual cultures. The fundamental analyses updated for this volume, along with newly commissioned essays, interviews with practitioners/curators, and a collection of essays, collectively explore the nuances of the relationships between memory and space, ideas of self, the fuzziness of geographic taxonomies, the dictates of the gaze, the rupture of identity, various dimensions of mirroring/othering, and the shaky politics of etching moments in time. Unframed thereby turns a critical eye upon lyrical and evidentiary frameworks, challenging the obduracy of our narrative positions and the conditioned habits of viewing that reinforce our intractable claims to know 'who' and 'where' we are. These pages offer fresh insights into how our analogue, digital and other hybrid technologies compel us to confront any monolithic history of photography by working through the multiplicity of facts and the singularity of truth.
Author | Rahaab Allana |
Publisher | Harper Collins Publishers |
Language | English |
Binding Type | Paper Back |
Non Fiction | History & Politics, Society & Culture |
ISBN13 | 9789354896026 |
SKU | BK 0141154 |
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