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"A wedding couple gazes resolutely out at the viewer from the wings of a butterfly, a commemorative portrait of a deceased boy surrounded by rose petals - such moving and quiet images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic Christopher Pinney explores in Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs. Studying photographic practice as it is embedded in Indian society over the last 100 years, Pinney, an anthropologist, traces the various purposes and goals of photography through colonial and postcolonial times." "Pinney identifies three key moments In…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 1998University Of Chicago Press · 240 pages · 9780226668666
- Other · English · 1997Reaktion Books · 240 pages · 9781861890061
- Other · English · 1997University of Chicago Press · 240 pages · 9780226668659
HistoryPhotographyPhotography in ethnologyPortrait photographyPsychological aspectsPsychological aspects of PhotographyIndia, social life and customsPhotographs
