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100	1		_aChaudhary, Zahid R.
245	1	0	_aAfterimage of empire : _bphotography in nineteenth-century India / _cZahid R. Chaudhary.
264		1	_aMinneapolis ; _aLondon : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c[2012]
300			_a258 pages,12 colored plates : _billustrations ; _c26 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-246) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Contents -- Introduction: Sensation and Photography 1. Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot 2. Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock 3. Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference 4. Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy 5. Coda: Sensing the Past -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_a" 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 famine photography, Zahid R. Chaudhary explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment.Chaudhary scrutinizes the colonial context to understand the production of sense itself, proposing a new theory of interpreting the historical difference of aesthetic forms. In rereading colonial photographic images, he shows how the histories of colonialism became aesthetically, mimetically, and perceptually generative. He suggests that photography arrived in India not only as a technology of the colonial state but also as an instrument that eventually extended and transformed sight for photographers and the body politic, both British and Indian.Ultimately, Afterimage of Empire uncovers what the colonial history of the medium of photography can teach us about the making of the modern perceptual apparatus, the transformation of aesthetic experience, and the linkages between perception and meaning. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPhotography _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century.
650		7	_aPHOTOGRAPHY / History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. _2bisacsh
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