We are delighted to announce that the exhibition is extended until the 31st of August 2018!
The exhibition is open from Monday to Friday 8am-7pm.
The exhibition
“Portrait Dravida: A Century of Studio Photography”
organized for the 25th ECSAS Conference (European Association for South Asian Studies) will be held from 5 to 30 July 2018 at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, at 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris.
The entrance is free.
“Portrait Dravida” shows for the first time in France the photographic production of popular photo studios in South India.
In this region of the world for over a century, the photo studio remained the only means of access to photography for the vast majority of the Indian population of all castes and origins. One would come alone, as a couple, as a family and, a little later, as a group of friends to get a portrait taken. If it was “too late”, the photographer would be called to the home to immortalize a recently deceased member of the family. The photo studio was the temple of portraiture where imagined ideals and rough social realities coexisted on the negatives. The challenge of the S.T.A.R.S. project is to consider, for the first time, these photographic portraits of commercial photo studios as object of study and object of art.
The exhibition was realized thanks to the support of ECSAS, the CEIAS (Center of Study of India and South Asia, CNRS-EHESS) and the EHESS.
Contact:
Zoe Headley, CEIAS-CNRS
Email: zoeheadley@gmail.com
Kasha E. Vande, ARCH M, Trustee, PondyART Foundation
Email: kv@pondyart.org
www.pondyart.org
www.pondyphoto.com
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