Subscribe to our Newsletter
Please enter your email address here
 


Tasveer Ghar presents the following image essays contributed by many young as well as seasoned collectors and scholars. Some essays are the work of Tasveer Ghar fellows of 2007 and 2008 who focused on the theme Gender, Nation and the Everyday Spaces, as well as Kaleidoscopic Sites and Sights: The Printed Visual Culture/s of Religious Pluralism. Our recent essays posted in 2010 have been commissioned from distinguished scholars across the world who we have invited to comment upon the Priya Paul collection. You can click on the image banner or the titles of the essays to see them. You can also sort them by authors name, title, or subject matter.
 
Select Subject Arrange By
Ranjani Mazumdar: The Man Who Was Seen Too Much: Amitabh Bachchan on Film Posters
Published on: (07 Sep 2010)
Posters that showcase one of Bombay cinema’s biggest stars.
Rosie Thomas: Still Magic
Published on: (14 Aug 2010)
An essay based on cinema lobby cards and film stills from Priya Paul collection
Sabeena Gadihoke : Selling Soap and Stardom: The Story of Lux
Published on: (14 Aug 2010)
Soap advertisements from the collections of Priya Paul and Sabeena Gadihoke
Shashwati Talukdar: Picturing Mountains As Hills
Published on: (12 Jul 2010)
Picture postcards from the British India depicting India's Hill stations
Richard H. Davis: Temple in a Frame
Published on: (15 May 2010)
Essay about images of Hindu deities from the Priya Paul collection
Arvind Rajagopal: The Commodity Image in the (Post) Colony
Published on: (15 May 2010)
An essay based on calendar images from the Priya Paul collection
Yousuf Saeed and Christiane Brosius: Workshop on Changing Popular Visual Cultures of Muslim Shrines: Transcultural Flows and Urban Spaces
Published on: (14 May 2010)
Sandria B. Freitag: Consumption and identity: Imagining ‘Everyday Life’ Through Popular Visual Culture
Published on: (03 Apr 2010)
A visual essay based on the Priya Paul Collection of Indian Popular Art
Abigail McGowan: Modernity at Home: Leisure, Autonomy and the New Woman in India
Published on: (25 Mar 2010)
A visual essay based on the Priya Paul Collection of Indian Popular Art
Christiane Brosius: The Rhythm of Romantic Love
Published on: (19 Feb 2010)
Valentine's Day cards in India
Total Records:33 - showing Page:1 of 4