Apon Katha
Roma Chatterjee & ATagor author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Tara Books
Published:1st Jan '18
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Artisan Camera is a testimony to an era of hands-on studio photography, when physical materials combined with the photographer's artistry to shape the final image. This book features work from Studio Suhag in Nagda, a small town in central India. Suresh Punjabi - the studio's proprietor and photographer - showcases some of his vintage photographs from the 1970s and 1980s. They evoke a world where the studio portrait was an important memento, capturing not just the 'real' subject, but also a persona made over to meet the camera's eye. A richly argued essay by visual anthropologist Christopher Pinney - author of Camera Indica - places Punjabi's work in the context of a fascinating visual history.
"Surviving the onslaught of time, studio photographs of the late '70s and '80s capturing the human drama of small town life make up a remarkable book." The Hindu, India
ISBN: 9789383145102
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 300g
96 pages