Pinney, Christopher;
Hasselbach, Vincent;
(2023)
Unruliness and Exorbitance: Anthropology, Collaboration and the Photographic Event.
Membrana: Journal of Photography, Theory and Visual Culture
, 8
(1)
pp. 57-76.
10.47659/mj-v8n1id160.
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Abstract
This conversation revolves around the relationship between anthropology and photography, and the roles of participation and collaboration in the process of the photographic event. It draws on Christopher Pinney’s long-running fieldwork engagements in central India, as well as his seminal contributions to anthropological understandings of global photographies. Focusing on the centrality of the photographic event to the “unruliness” of the resulting images, as well as their ontological exorbitance, the conversation explores tensions and debates in photographic theory from the 20th century through to the present day. Centering the idea of collaboration firmly within the ontology of photography, it also explores broader relationships between photography, colonialism, and agency, as well as key issues around photography as an anthropological fieldwork methodology. Taking a deterritorialised approach, it draws on a range of visual cues, ranging from nineteenthcentury colonial photography to contemporary art and vernacular practices in the Indian subcontinent.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Unruliness and Exorbitance: Anthropology, Collaboration and the Photographic Event |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.47659/mj-v8n1id160 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.47659/mj-v8n1id160 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Photography, anthropology, collaboration, participation, agency, profilmic, photographic event, fieldwork, contingency |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201081 |
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