Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture, edited by Rahaab Allana

Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture reframes lens-based practice in India through a fresh historical perspective. The book presents a new assemblage of well-known writing and image-making. From texts by historians to recent statements/interviews by practitioners of photography, the chapters in the book come together to narrate a new story about the transformation and redefinition of photography in the 1990s – a decade marked by economic liberalization, globalization and the ascent of digital technology that revolutionized the media sphere. This compilation critically examines normative paradigms of image production, exhibition-making and circulation in the areas of documentary and fine art photography, journalism, cinema, contemporary art and the archive. It delineates new publics, emergent patterns of viewership, shifting modes of media consumption, and the diverse, technologically enabled creative trajectories that inscribe the postcolonial imaginary within the wider orbit of South Asian image cultures.
 
Authors | Artists
Jyoti Bhatt, Margaret Bourke-White, CAMP, Francesca Ceccherini/Noriko Yamakoshi, Sheba Chhachhi, Dukhshyam Chitrakar, Javed Dar, Lala Deen Dayal, Desire Machine Collective, Sabeena Gadihoke, Gauri Gill, Shumona Goel, Diva Gujral, Sunil Gupta, Shai Heredia, Sunil Janah, Sanjay Kak, Amar Kanwar, Jitish Kallat, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Majid Maqbool, William Mazzarella/Raminder Kaur, Madhuban Mitra/Manas Bhattacharya, Kabir Mohanty, Parul Dave Mukherji, Suryanandini Narain, Akbar Padamsee, Prashant Panjiar, Dashrath Patel, Vinodray Patel, People’s War, Sandhini Poddar, Pushpamala N., Raghu Rai, Sumathi Ramaswamy, Raqs Media Collective, Ruth Rosengarten, S.N.S. Sastry, Gemma Scott, Mrinal Sen, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Dayanita Singh, Prarthna Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Surekha, Emilia Terracciano, Jodi Throckmorton, Meraj Ud Din, Homai Vyarawalla