Satish Sharma https://photomail.org/portfolio_category/satish-sharma/ Discover, Debate, Define, The Art of Photography Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:22:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Power, Democracy and ‘Other’ Women https://photomail.org/online/power-democracy-and-other-women-satish-sharma/ https://photomail.org/online/power-democracy-and-other-women-satish-sharma/#respond Mon, 26 Mar 2018 04:45:34 +0000 http://photomail.org/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=4895 Photography, after the Second World War and McCarthyism, was consciously pushed into the sanitised spaces of Art galleries and Museums away from its past as a concerned, conscience-pricking tool. We were told by institutional gatekeepers like the Museum of Modern Art in New York that Photography was only about Itself. It was an Art form that was about navel-gazing photographers and about flattened formalist fields. Photography was not supposed to exist outside its own frame.

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