Afterimage of empire : photography in nineteenth-century India / / Zahid R. Chaudhary.
" Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and f...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 258 p., [12] p. of plates :; ill. (some col.) |
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction: Sensation and Photography1. Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot2. Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock3. Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference4. Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for SympathyCoda: Sensing the Past
- Acknowledgments
- Appendixes
- Translation of Proclamation Attributed to Nana Sahib
- Transcription and Translation of Farsi Inscriptions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.