02548cam a2200253 i 4500008004100000020001800041020001800059040000800077050002300085100003200108245009100140300005100231505042800282505001700710518001500727520120700742650005501949650003502004650004902039900001402088942001302102999001902115952016002134111118s2012    mnuaf    b   s001 0 eng    a9780816677481  a9780816677498  aSDU00aTR103bC426 A 20121 aChaudhary, Zahid R.920976010aAfterimage of empire :bphotography in nineteenth-century India /cZahid R. Chaudhary.  a258 pages,12 colored plates :billustrations ;8 aMachine generated contents note:  Contents -- Introduction: Sensation and Photography 1. Death and the Rhetoric of Photography: X Marks the Spot 2. Anaesthesis and Violence: A Colonial History of Shock 3. Armor and Aesthesis: The Picturesque in Difference 4. Famine and the Reproduction of Affect: Pleas for Sympathy 5. Coda: Sensing the Past -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Translations  -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.8 aHKBU library  aYT2025 M08  a" Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photography, Zahid R. Chaudhary explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment.Chaudhary scrutinizes the colonial context to understand the production of sense itself, proposing a new theory of interpreting the historical difference of aesthetic forms. In rereading colonial photographic images, he shows how the histories of colonialism became aesthetically, mimetically, and perceptually generative. He suggests that photography arrived in India not only as a technology of the colonial state but also as an instrument that eventually extended and transformed sight for photographers and the body politic, both British and Indian.Ultimately, Afterimage of Empire uncovers what the colonial history of the medium of photography can teach us about the making of the modern perceptual apparatus, the transformation of aesthetic experience, and the linkages between perception and meaning.  "-- 0aPhotographyzIndiaxHistoryy19th century.9209761 7aPHOTOGRAPHY / History.9209762 7aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.9209763  a= C.1 SDU  cGBE2lcc  c109021d109021  00102lcc406TR0103 C426 A2012708CGB9279802aSDUbSDUcGEN3d2025-08-29e2l0oTR103 C426 A 2012p1000362604r2025-08-29 00:00:00tC.1w2025-08-29yGBE