Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India
Afterimage of Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India
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Abstract
This book 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, this book explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment. This book 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, it shows how the histories of colonialism became aesthetically, mimetically, and perceptually generative. It 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.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Sensation and Photography
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Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot
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Two
Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock
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Three
Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference
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Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy
- Coda Sensing the Past
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End Matter
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