MIT-India and South Asia Studies Consortium present:
UNKNOWN HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Ram Rahman
Tuesday, April 8
6 pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room no. 4-237
Ram Rahman will place contemporary Indian photography into the
context of the 'lost' histories of photography in the
post-independence era. He will talk about photographers who have
been crucial figures in the last decade of the struggle for
independence struggle and the first decades after independence. Much
of this material has not been in the public eye for decades and is a
visual archive which has barely been studied. Sunil Janah, Margaret
Bourke-White, Cecil Beaton, Kishor Parekh, William Gedney are some
of the photographers he will focus on.
Ram Rahman has a BSAD degree from MIT (1977) and an MFA from Yale
(1979). He has worked as a photographer and graphic designer in
India and the US ever since. He has been a founding member of the
artists collective SAHMAT, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust in Delhi
and has co-curated many performance events and public art projects
with them. He has also curated a major retrospective of the
photographer Sunil Janah in New York in 1998 and HEAT, a show of
photography and video at the Bose Pacia Gallery in New York. Ram has
shown his work around the world, most recently at the Newark Museum
and a major show, BIOSCOPE, this February in New Delhi.
MAP:
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--
Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee
Director, MIT-India Program
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Center for Bilingual and Bicultural Studies
Building: 14N Room: 208
1-617-258-6745
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA.
Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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