Photography in the “Contact Zone”: Identifying Copresence and Agency in the Studios of Darjeeling

Among the many novel cultural technologies that the British introduced to the Himalayas in the second half of the nineteenth century was photography. Although initially deployed as a crucial instrument for use within colonial documentation projects, by the 1880s the camera had become more closely al...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, C
Other Authors: Viehbeck, M
Format: Book section
Published: Heidelberg University Publishing 2017