[Sci-tech-public] An MIT-India Invitation for April 8, 6 PM, at 4-237

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>MIT-India and South Asia Studies Consortium present:
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>UNKNOWN HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
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>Ram Rahman
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>Tuesday, April 8
>6 pm
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Room no. 4-237
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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.
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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.
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>MAP: 
><http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=4-237>http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=4-237
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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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