[Reader-list] Of Urban Localities and Bazaar Photography

[Rahaab Allana]

Having spent a considerable amount of time with an
artist from Patel Nagar (previously employed by
Mahatta Studios, New Delhi) who tints B/W photographs,
the research has begun to incorporate not only the
significance of bazaars as 'spaces of engagement', but
also the relation they bear with people from various
backgrounds and professions. 
I have conducted detailed interviews with Prof. Rajeev
Lochan (Dir. NGMA) and Mr.Madan Mehta himself in order
to ascertain how and why the market has been a
conditioning factor in the development of their
respective fields (New Media and Photography). 
Subsequently, I have been reading and applying some of
the philosophical implications of 'phenomenology', in
my research on bazaars...that is, looking at complexes
from theoretical points of view as posited by
post-structuralists such as Marleau Ponty, Lefebvre's,
 'Production of Space' (1991). I am relating notions
of architecture, social history and sociology to
understand, on the one hand, how market complexes mark
an infusion of city and village binaries. Secondly,
why they are so successful and whether this has
historical validation, even as early as the 18th
Century.
The aesthetic implications of the photos produced by
the tinter are being pursued, again, with a leaning on
art-history. Texts such as Martha Gutman's Through
Indian Eyes as well as Bayly's essay in The Raj
(Colonial Anthropology in the Laboratory of Mankind)
are insightful.
Looking forward to responses.
Rahaab.
  


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