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Photoattractions An Indian Dancer An American Photographer And A German Camera Ajay Sinha

Name: Photoattractions An Indian Dancer An American Photographer And A German Camera Ajay Sinha
SKU: BELL-46233218
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Photoattractions An Indian Dancer An American Photographer And A German Camera Ajay Sinha instant download after payment.

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 8.58 MB

Pages: 270

Author: Ajay Sinha

ISBN: 9781978830486, 1978830483

Language: English

Year: 2022

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Photoattractions An Indian Dancer An American Photographer And A German Camera Ajay Sinha by Ajay Sinha 9781978830486, 1978830483 instant download after payment.

In Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance.Photo-Attractionsdescribes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography.

Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera.

A groundbreaking study of global modernity,Photo-Attractionsbrings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.