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This volume engages with the image of the labouring body against monumental machines, dams, and infrastructure and the ways in which photography engages with strands of modernist aesthetics to support new modes of seeing the changing industrial landscape and the human body.
List of contents
List of Illustrations ix Notes on the Contributors xi Series Editor's Preface xiii 1 Industry, Documentary, Aesthetics: Postcolonial Indian Photography in a Global Frame 1 RANU ROYCHOUDHURI AND REBECCA M. BROWN 2 Through the "Eye of Imagination": Documentary Photography and the Aesthetics of (Under)development 11 ATREYEE GUPTA 3 Laboring Families: Photographs from Sites of Industry in India 23 SURYANANDINI NARAIN 4 Jyoti Bhatt and the Folk Art of Photography 40 SOPHIA POWERS Color Plates 59 5 "The New Temples of Resurgent India": Visualizing Hydroelectric and Nuclear Power for a Modern Nation 75 STUART W. LESLIE 6 Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning Scale in the Archive of Mrinalini Mukherjee (1960-1980s) 98 EMILIA TERRACCIANO 7 Bodies and Machines: Photographing Labor on India's Industrial Frontier 115 MIRCEA RAIANU 8 Dayanita Singh's Machines 135 REBECCA M. BROWN
Index 158
About the author
Ranu Roychoudhuri is Associate Professor in the Performing and Visual Arts division in the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University. She works on modern and contemporary art in South Asia with an emphasis on photography, intellectual histories of art, and art historiography. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and art magazines, curated shows for private and public institutions, and taught in the US and Indian higher education institutions.
Rebecca M. Brown is Professor of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Her research engages in the history of art, architecture, and visual culture of South Asia and its diasporas from the late eighteenth century to the present. Her publications focus on the British colonial era, India's anti-colonial movement, art after India's independence, the politics of display in the long 1980s, K. C. S. Paniker's language of painting, and the work of Dayanita Singh, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Rina Banerjee.
Summary
This volume engages with the image of the labouring body against monumental machines, dams, and infrastructure and the ways in which photography engages with strands of modernist aesthetics to support new modes of seeing the changing industrial landscape and the human body.
