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This book suggests that the 'single most important concept is that the photograph is a multiplicity of different things: a way of speaking, a way of showing, a recorded point of view, a piece of visible architecture, a force that is exerted on the viewer, a seduction, a coercion, an exercise of power that has an effect on how the self is fashioned.' Because of all these aspects it provides opportunities for struggle, resistance and change. He argues that photography and institutions that make use of the image as an integral part of their work in a modern culture. Towards this end, he discusses the different uses of photography in this book: advertisement, hoarding-painting, newsphotography, identification, documentary, and 'as a method of interrogating history.'
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R. Srivatsan is an independent scholar. He works on contemporary visual culture and political theory in India.
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Conditions of Visibility : Writings on Photography in Contemporary India
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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. Seller Inventory # 93968
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Popular Prakashan (P) Ltd. Bhatkal & Sen, 2000
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Condition: New. pp. xiii + 174 Acknowledgement. Seller Inventory # 1868058
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