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Traces of India : photography, architecture, and the politics of representation, 1850-1900 / edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari - Montréal : New Haven : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Yale Center for British Art : Yale University Press, c2003 - 342 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm

Based on exhibitions organized by the CCA

Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-335) and index

From stone to paper : photographs of architecture and the traces of history / Maria Antonella Pelizzari -- Antiquarianism, visuality and the exotic monument : William Hodges's A dissertation / Stephen Bann -- Rites of passage : a Frenchman's albums of British India / Julia Ballerini -- The compulsions of visual representation in colonial India / Tapati Guha-Thakurta -- "This noble triumph of photography" : Linnaeus Tripe's Thanjavur inscription panorama / Janel Dewan -- Pattern of photographic surveys : Joseph Lawton in Ceylon / John Falconer -- Photography and architecture at the Calcutta International Exhibition / Peter H. Hoffenberg -- Colonial amnesia and the old regime in the photographs of Linnaeus Tripe / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Pictorializing the "mutiny" of 1857 / Narayani Gupta -- Monuments and memorials : Lord Curzon's creation of a past for the Raj / Thomas R. Metcalf -- Some Indian "views of India" : the ethics of representation / Christopher Pinny -- The sacred circulation of national images / Partha Chatterjee

ISBN: 0300098960 (Yale Univ. Press) 0920785743 (Canadian Centre for Architecture/Yale Center for British Art) 8188204145 (Mapin Pub.)

LCCN: 2003100508

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Photography--India
Architectural photography--India

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Civilization--1765-1947
India--Colonial influence

LC Class. No.: TR103 / .T73 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 770/.954/09034