Painted Photographs: Coloured Portraiture in India - Softcover

Alkazi, Ebrahim; Allana, Rahaab; Kumar, Pramod

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944142958 ISBN 13: 9780944142950

Publisher: Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This volume explores the development of the embellished image in India through the painted photograph, a genre that marks a significant chapter in the history of Indian photography.

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About the Author

Rahaab Allana is Curator of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi. He completed his MA in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, in 2001. He has worked as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, and is the author of Inherited Spaces Inhabited Places (2005), a volume on World Heritage Sites, published by the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. Pramod Kumar K G is Associate Director at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi. Founder Director of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing at Jaipur, he was Director of the Jaipur Virasat Foundation in 2005-06, and of the Jaipur Heritage International Festival and the first Jaipur Literature Festival in 2006.

Review

"Captures the stunning diversity evident in the formative years of photography in India. -- Anand Sankar, Business Standard "The lushness of the textiles, embroidery and jewellery, painted over to convey the glimmer of silk or the glitter of gold, can still be made out in the latest black-and-white versions of these chameleonic images." -- Aveek Sen, The Telegraph"

Edition details

• Publisher: Mapin Publishing Gp Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944142958
• ISBN 13: 9780944142950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88