Unframed : Discovering Image Practices in South Asia

By Rahaab Allana

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About the book

Unframed presents some of the complex dimensions of South Asia-oriented lens-based media, specifically tracing the evolution of photography in the subcontinent from the nineteenth century to the present. Through intersecting trajectories, thirty-one texts, arranged in five distinct yet interdependent sections, examine the general history/particular meta-histories of the medium in our region, reflecting the depth of image practices in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar.

Drawing upon the broader arc of South Asian visual cultures, this collection/reader analyzes emergent themes, testimonies and socio-cultural shifts through key discussions around the invention, application and consequent proliferation of lens-based work. Seminal analyses revised for this volume, as well as new commissioned essays and a set of interviews with practitioners/curators collectively explore the subtle entanglements of memory and space; notions of selfhood; the blurring of geographic taxonomies; the edicts of the gaze; the rupture of identity; varied dimensions of mirroring/othering; and the unstable politics of etching moments in time.

Unframed thereby turns a critical eye upon lyrical and evidentiary frameworks, challenging the obduracy of our narrative positions and the conditioned habits of viewing that reinforce our intractable claims to know ‘who’ and ‘where’ we are. These pages offer fresh insights into how our analogue, digital and other hybrid technologies compel us to confront any monolithic history of photography by working through the multiplicity of facts and the singularity of truth.

Contributors

Anoli Perera, Aparna Kumar, Ashmina Ranjit, Aveek Sen, Bakirathi Mani, Christopher Pinney, David Odo, Dechen Roder, Omar Khan, Premjish Achari, Rahul Roy, Raqs Media Collective, Sabeena Gadihoke, Sabih Ahmed, Sai Htin Linn Htet, Geeta Kapur, Gopesa Paquette, Hammad Nasar, Ismeth Raheem, Mrinalini Venkateswaran, Nancy Adajania, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Nathalie Johnston, Saloni Mathur, Savitri Sawhney, Shahidul Alam, Sudhir Mahadevan, Sukanya Baskar, Tanzim Wahab, Yu Yu Myint Than

Pages: 672

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Rahaab Allana

Rahaab Allana is Curator/Publisher, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, NewDelhi. A Charles Wallace grant awardee and Fellow of the Royal AsiaticSociety, he received his MA in Art History from the School of Orientaland African Studies, London and was briey Honorary Research Associatein the Department of Visual Anthropology at University College, London.He is Founding Editor of PIX, a themed digital publication that focuseson South Asian lens-based practices and production, and Founder ofASAP|Art (Alternative South Asia Photography/Art), the region’s firstapp for presentation and discussion of contemporary creative work.Allana works nationally and internationally with museums, archives,cultural initiatives and institutions, universities and festivals. Herecently served as Guest Editor for a Delhi-themed issue of Aperture (Summer 2021). He is on the editorial board of Trans-Asia Photography,the advisory committees of the India-Europe Foundation for NewDialogues (Rome), and the Arts and Culture committee, Asia Society(India).