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Author(s):	Ajay Sinha

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1978830491
Pages:	270	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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In Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechtens Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography.
 
Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechtens Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinhas reading, Van Vechtens New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a photo-erotic triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera.
 
A groundbreaking study of global modernity,
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