Bipin Balachandran https://photomail.org/portfolio_category/bipin-balachandran/ Discover, Debate, Define, The Art of Photography Sat, 25 Sep 2021 16:08:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Men of Pukar: Narrating the non-narrative https://photomail.org/online/men-of-pukar-narrating-the-non-narrative-by-bipin-balachandran/ https://photomail.org/online/men-of-pukar-narrating-the-non-narrative-by-bipin-balachandran/#respond Tue, 26 Dec 2017 03:29:13 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=4722 Abul Kalam Azad's ‘Men of Pukar’ does not try to ‘re-narrate’ Ilango’s Kaveripattinam but Azad has his own heroes and heroines and more often he cuts his depth of focusing short in order to present them within the discursive premises where the incongruity between the history and present day condition of the place is felt. He neither tries to document the relics of the past glory (if there is anything at all) nor claims his images to be that of some ‘historical’ moments. Instead, he allows viewers to delve into the ‘image-space’ for some cultural codes which would help them to re-read the historical narratives in multiple ways.

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]]> https://photomail.org/online/men-of-pukar-narrating-the-non-narrative-by-bipin-balachandran/feed/ 0 The World of Transient Signifiers https://photomail.org/online/the-world-of-transient-signifiers-bipin-balachandran/ https://photomail.org/online/the-world-of-transient-signifiers-bipin-balachandran/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2016 04:56:02 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1182 Right from the invention of photography there has been a common understanding that it reflected the world as such or more exactly it was taken to be so intimately associated with the object depicted. The fin de siècle avant-gardism in art was, among a lot of other things, a reaction to this notion of the ‘photographed reality’. But at the same time one could also remonstrate against this by accentuating the ‘pictorialism vs. straight photography episode’ from the history of photography.

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