LUNCHTIME LECTURE: CAMERA INDIA: EXCERPTS FROM A GLOBAL HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

12–1 PM
Free with Museum admission

Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media seem to have collapsed both distance and time, at least in a virtual world. Arguably, technology always had this capability, for it could bring distant places close. Atreyee Gupta will discuss how one such technological invention—the camera—created an interconnected, indeed transcultural, world that photographers in India shared with their contemporaries elsewhere. She will map the journeys of Indian photographers across the Atlantic and the Pacific from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and connect them to a global history of photography. Based in Berlin, Kolkata, and San Francisco, Gupta is a Fellow of the Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices program of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. Her research and publications focus on twentiethcentury Indian art, with a special emphasis on the decades following World War II.

Lunchtime Lectures take place on the first Wednesday of the month at noon in the Charlotte Wendel Education Center. Visitors are welcome to bring food and beverages.