Bøger udgivet af Bhatkal & Sen

Translated into English, this autobiography captures the chilling reality of a childhood spent playing with carcasses in a bonemeal factory, snatching coins from corpses in the cremation grounds, of being refused water at the village well and the various stages of a remarkable life. He reveals what modern India is like as it plunges along its path of economic growth. Pages

Elaborating new theoretical perspectives on visual cultures, the book addresses the political processes of the photographic image. Srivatsan uses gender, caste and class to serve as frames of reference for this original and stimulating analysis. He takes into consideration a range of visual material: hand-painted cinema hoardings, the modernism of Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographs in police records and the visual politics of advertising and news photography.