Christopher Pinney is professor of anthropology and visual culture at University College London. He is the author of The Coming of Photography in India, Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs, and „Photos of the Gods“: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India, the latter two also published by Reaktion Books.
5 Ebooks von Christopher Pinney
Christopher Pinney: Camera Indica
A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy.
These quiet but moving images represent th …
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Pinney Christopher Pinney: Waterless Sea
Mirages have long astonished travelers of the sea and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Traditional Chinese and Japanese poetry and art depict the above-horizon, superior mirage, or fata morgana, as …
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€36.88
Christopher Pinney & Nicholas Thomas: Beyond Aesthetics
The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to …
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€47.94
Christopher Pinney & Nicholas Thomas: Beyond Aesthetics
The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to …
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€48.16
Nicolas Peterson & Christopher Pinney: Photography’s Other Histories
Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the …
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€35.47
