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Looking for Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai
Fine Art Photography & the Working Classes 1970s-1990s
Speaker
This talk looks at a photographic ecology of the working classes in Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai between the 1970s and 1990s by fine art photographers. It asks in what ways this photographic construction of the laboring population looks at questions of alienation, class, caste, and capitalism. It situates these images at a time when the city was witness to the steady decline of the Communist stronghold among the working classes, moving to embrace the Shiv Sena Party with its anti-migrant rhetoric, liberalization and deindustrialization after the Great Textile Mill Strike of 1982.
The talk will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Speaker
Ayesha Matthan
Ayesha Matthan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of Art at Cornell University. She also works part-time as a Curatorial Assistant in Asian Art at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell. She has worked with The Hindu, Bangalore, the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, and India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore. Her dissertation is tentatively titled Looking for Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai: Photography, Identity and the Working Classes, 1970s-1990s.
