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Consortium present: <br>
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UNKNOWN HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY<br>
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Ram Rahman<br>
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Tuesday, April 8<br>
6 pm<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Room no. 4-237<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Dr. Arundhati Tuli Banerjee<br>
Director, MIT-India Program<br>
Foreign Languages and Literatures<br>
Center for Bilingual and Bicultural Studies<br>
Building: 14N Room: 208<br>
1-617-258-6745<br>
77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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