Pinney, C;
(2020)
Locating Photography.
In: Bull, S, (ed.)
A Companion to Photography.
(pp. 29-47).
Wiley-Blackwell: Hoboken, NJ, USA.
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Abstract
The specter of global dissemination haunted photography from its very beginning. This chapter explains two aspects of photography's “globalization”: its use as a “western” technique to document an increasingly colonized world and its dissemination around the world and its adoption by local practitioners. In rural and small‐town central India, the studio retains a central place in most people's encounters with photography. Martín Chambi would retain a lifelong adherence to the purity of the photographic image but other indigenista photographers, such as Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, would increasingly use paint alongside photography. A World System Photography, seen in networks that fold locally articulated practices into trajectories that fuse technics, history, and culture, can help people think in new ways about the “location” of photography. Locations have to be re‐imagined as “Terra Infirma”, unstable and complex positions which may have more of the quality of linking sections of a network than of territories.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Locating Photography |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-405-19584-3 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9781118598764.ch3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118598764.ch3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111122 |
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