ASAP discussion on Chris Pinney’s ‘Seven Theses on Photography’
by PhotoDemos on June 16, 2022
Photograph Taken in a Travelling Mela Studio. (Probably Mumbai, c. 1920.)
ASAP, the online platform featuring critical perspectives on lens-based practices from South Asia, has published a response to Chris Pinney’s article ‘Seven Theses on Photography’ (published in the journal Thesis Eleven in 2012).
Self-Portrait by Suresh Punjabi, Suhag Studio, Madhya Pradesh, c. 1978. (Image courtesy of Suresh Punjabi.)
A Group of Jain Pilgrims or Monks. As photography rendered everyone equally, it was necessary to over-paint their servants in order to make visible their continuing worldliness. (From the Alkazi Collection of Photography.)