Art & Deal

Monthly Art Magazine in India

Day: July 4, 2013

Editorial

Editorial

The nineteenth century saw the invention of a beautiful device known as the camera obscura. The dictionary explains the meaning: a darkened chamber or small building in which images of outside objects are projected onto a flat surface by a…

Cover Story

Cover Story

An Inconclusive Autopsy on a Non-existent Corpse Waswo X. Waswo But there are differences of course, and I can dispute my own words. To understand those differences it is good to remember Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession movement he guided in…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Framing violence, pain and others through the moving images of B.V. Suresh Aparna Roy Baliga Since 2001, B.V. Suresh has started working on videos. His very first work ‘Introspection’ is based on photographic stills from documentaries on the second world…

Cover Story

Cover Story

Imaging their Subjectivity : Transsexuals and Photo graphy Siddharth Sivakumar After dealing with trans-sexuality from a diachronic perspective, in her Alice at Frederick’s of Hollywood, Mariette situates trans-sexuality in a synchronic time-frame. The image has captured the three representatives of…

Essay

Essay

How is it! Photography, today? H.A.Anil Kumar As the general belief goes, the alleged claim that negativebased photography is losing its charm and classicism could also be similar to the older generation being dissatisfied with their 3Gs (third generations). Photography,…

Essay

Essay

‘THE PHOTOS (C)HOPPED BODY’ Digital photography and the politics of desire Bipin Balachandran When everyone becomes a photographer as what is happening nowadays, the amateur/professional distinction becomes blur in photography. Any event can be recorded and circulated publically. This flood…

Feature

Feature

The CAPTION A probe into the birth and use of text to make meaning of photographs and its revolution in recent times R. Dhanya Probably the easiest to go without captions are landscapes or images of ‘natural beauty’. How often…

Feature

Feature

PHOTOGRAPHY….. WHERE TO FOCUS? Dr .Meghali Goswami There is no such thing as true objectivity, of course, in photography or any other medium. By its nature, a photograph is an incomplete and therefore slanted picture of reality; it is a…

Feature

Feature

Enticing Images: Malls as Albums Sushma Sabnis If one travels into a distant future, one might nostalgically look at their then favourite mall structure with some then old actress selling the then used to be lotion-potion for eternal beauty. When…

Cinema

Cinema

Remembering Rituparno… Dr. Ayiriddhi Bhattacharjee Picking the right actor for a character was his forte as a director. He not only offered great roles to Bollywood actresses ranging from Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee, Kiron Kher, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Monisha Koirala, Preity…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Dilip Banerjee I never thought of photography as a profession when pondering over my carrier options. But capturing the colours of human lives, the decisive moments in black and white without shades of grey is perhaps most rewarding. To me,…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Shefali Munjal I like to portray the people living on the edge. In the present series I have showed people from the high ranges like Leh and Laddakh. Serenity is a sort of predominant theme in my works though behind…

Photo Essay

Photo Essay

Pranab Seal As she steps forward a new world awaits her, land of dreams or land of dying hope where camouflaged demons await in gloom, from light to darkness is this right direction

History

History

A Brief History of ‘Camera, clicks and capture’ Sayan Dey Life, a weekly, immediately hit the stands and many others like Look, See, Photo, Picture, and Click joined the queue. Look went out of business in 1972; Life suspended publication…

International

International

RAM SHERGILL Everything Beautiful Rajesh Punj Immediately after the shoot, Shergill walked the half distance from Treacy’s studio to Isabella Blow’s apartment, let in by Blow herself he recalls she was on the telephone with the American Vogue, and she…

Review

Review

Life seen as a toy shop on the canvas Art & Deal Correspondent Shukla looks to tell a story with each of his exhibitions. This particular collection of paintings is inspired by the artist’s four year old daughter and her…