Insurgent Citizenship: Dr John Nicholas Tresidder's Photographs of War and Peace in British India

This article focuses on the deployment of the camera during a moment of acute political crisis in nineteenth-century India, when both the significance and the scope of British power were highly unstable, arguing that photography’s unique formal features enabled colonials to picture a precarious impe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sean Willcock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2016-11-01
Series:British Art Studies
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Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-4/insurgent-citizenship