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Gupta Sunil - We Were Here: Sexuality Photography And Cultural Difference Selected Essays By Sunil Gupta - Paperback
Gupta Sunil - We Were Here: Sexuality Photography And Cultural Difference Selected Essays By Sunil Gupta - Paperback
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Description: We Were Here: Sexuality Photography and Cultural Difference offers an unparalleled firsthand account of the influential photographer and curator Sunil Gupta's writing and critical inquiry since the 1970s. Newspaper articles speeches and essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada the UK and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities the AIDS crisis the Black Arts Movement or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self - discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live love and create.
Title: We Were Here: Sexuality Photography And Cultural Difference Selected Essays By Sunil Gupta
Author(s): Gupta Sunil
Publisher: Aperture
Barcode: 9781597115285
Pages: 224 Pages, 20 Halftone Images
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
Series: Aperture Ideas
Category: Photography & Photographs
Description: We Were Here: Sexuality Photography and Cultural Difference offers an unparalleled firsthand account of the influential photographer and curator Sunil Gupta's writing and critical inquiry since the 1970s. Newspaper articles speeches and essays show Gupta's crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada the UK and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities the AIDS crisis the Black Arts Movement or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self - discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live love and create.
Title: We Were Here: Sexuality Photography And Cultural Difference Selected Essays By Sunil Gupta
Author(s): Gupta Sunil
Publisher: Aperture
Barcode: 9781597115285
Pages: 224 Pages, 20 Halftone Images
Publication Date: 10/18/2022
Series: Aperture Ideas
Category: Photography & Photographs
