[Commlist] new book: Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics

New Book Out: “Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, 
Politics", by Paolo Silvio Harald Favero

Book Description

/Image-Making-India/ explores the evolving meaning of images in a 
digital landscape from the vantage point of contemporary India.

Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in 
Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities, the author interrogates the 
dialogue between visual culture, technology and changing notions of 
political participation. The book explores selected artistic experiences 
in documentary and fiction film, photography, contemporary art and 
digital curation that have in common a desire to engage with images as 
tools for social intervention. These experiences reveal images’ capacity 
not only to narrate and represent but also to perform, do and affect. 
Particular attention is devoted to the 'digital', a critical landscape 
that offers an opportunity to re-examine the significance of images and 
visual culture in a rapidly changing India.

This volume will be of particular interest to scholars of visual and 
digital anthropology and cultures as well as South Asian studies.

Table of Contents

Ch 1 In uncompleted circles, spirals and swirls: An introduction,

Ch 2 The present world of images: A theoretical background,

Ch 3 Sharpening ideas on the whetting stone: Independent documentary 
practices, resistance and revolution,

Ch 4 The ghost of an image: On photographs, truth and colonial violence,

Ch 5 The uncanny destiny of ‘raw’ footage: The politics of imagemaking 
from analogic to digital, from filmmaking to archiving,

Ch 6 Conclusions

https://www.routledge.com/Image-Making-India-Visual-Culture-Technology-Politics/Favero/p/book/9781350029880

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