A groundbreaking study of global modernity and the cultural interchange between America and South Asia, Photo-Attractions uses a rare and unpublished set of 1938 photographs taken by the photographer Carl Van Vechten of the Indian dancer Ram Gopal in exotic costumes to raise provocative questions about race, sexual identity, photographic technology, colonial histories, and transcultural desires.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prelude
Chapter 1: The Photo Studio
Chapter 2: The Dancer
Chapter 3: The Photographer
Chapter 4: The Camera
Chapter 5: Photo-Dance
Chapter 6: Afterimages
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index
