[Reader-list] Photography Revisted : Event

[ravig1 at vsnl.com]

As part of

alien waters
An exhibition of photographic works (2004-2006) by Ravi Agarwal 


Events On

October 26, 5:15 pm to 8 pm
at the IIC Annex Basement Lecture Room 

"Photography revisited"

Jeet Thayil, 
Rana Dasgupta, 
Sarnath Banerjee  
Sheba Chacchi 

speak about their relationship to photographs. 


The provocation:

Images abound. Today more than ever before, images and their circulation has become ubiquitous. With the advent 
of  the digital, image making has become cheap, film need not be processed, and digital printing is no more 
expensive than printing from regular negatives. Images abound. They can be mammoth as in billboards or miniscule 
as on mobiles. They are on television sets, in magazines, on the internet, on computers, on mobile phones, I Pods, 
on video chats, billboards, hoardings, everywhere. But in a world full of images, is ‘photography’ dead? And when 
everyone is a 'photographer,' is s/he dead too? 
But amongst all this, is there a reinvention? Has the photograph reinvented itself, as maybe we have? If so, the re-
invented photograph needs to be re-visited. What does a photograph mean to us now? How does it relate to our 
state of being? How comfortable are we with its unpredictability, as we are with ours? Maybe again, nothing has 
changed!

This is the proposal, the journey they make. Take 3 to 5 photographs of  their choice, and talk about how they relate 
to them.