Artisan Camera: Studio Photography from Central India

Artisan camera is a testimony to an era of hands-on studio photography, when physical materials combined with the photographers artistry to shape the final image this book features work from studio suhag in nagda, a small town in central india suresh punjabi - the studios proprietor and photographer - showcases some of his vintage photographs from the 1970s and 1980s they evoke a world where the studio portrait was an important memento, capturing not just the real subject, but also a persona made over to meet the cameras eye a richly argued essay by visual anthropologist christopher pinney - author of camera indica - places punjabis work in the context of a fascinating visual history