The iconoclastic eye and the live image : toward a critique of photography in colonial India

Abstract

Contents include: selected photographs from the colonial archive; segueway into the dialogues; Talbot, Alberti and the origins of photographic idolatry; Maimonides and the contribution of Jewish iconoclasm; elements of photographic form; elements of referential photographic realism; photographies of stillness and quickness, institutional and personal authorization, Marxist iconoclasm; postmodernism, disappointed idealism, fascism; general considerations on the colonial archive; anthropological imagery of the colonial archive; studios and snapshot imagery of the colonial archive; and journalistic imagery of the colonial archive.