| ID | 162470 |
| Title Proper | Photographs of people, monument for a city |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Roychoudhuri, Ranu |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In the late 1970s, a photo-documentation project titled ‘People of Calcutta’ aimed at bringing about positive social change through imaging the everyday lives of ordinary Calcuttans. These photographs responded to a post-colonial situation and created a ‘counter-narrative’ of the agency of the urban poor. Weaving together photographs and their intellectual history, this paper charts the ways in which this visual documentation invested deeply in human development while providing a ‘positive image’ of the urban poor. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 41, No.3; Sep 2018: p.658-680 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018-09 41, 3 |
| Key Words | Human Development ; Urban Poor ; Calcutta ; Developmentalism ; Monument ; Chitrabani ; Documentary Photography ; Gaston Roberge |