'Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Idea of the Face' a talk by Dr. N.A. Jacob at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 1st April 2014
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Idea of the Face’ by Dr. N.A. Jacob, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Abstract : How did the face come to serve as the visual guarantee of singular identity? What do we seek in the face of the other? In the theatre of looks, what specific play of presence and absence does the face offer? Can one look at a face without being implicated in a fantasy of legibility? And yet, the knowledge that faces offer can be next to nothing or almost everything—from a zero degree mark of identity, like a fingerprint, all the way to a rich compendium of the elements that signify character and intention. The birth of photography in the nineteenth century marks a decisive rupture in the history of the face and its representations. Images produced in the dark recesses of the camera appear to be free of human intervention, thus elevating the photographed face to the status of objective knowledge. But this mechanical representation of the face also enables a whole of range of affective relations and re-constitutes the face and its meanings so fundamentally that now, every face is the shadow produced by its photographic representation. The photographic image of the face assumes a new network of relationships to the self, others, time and the idea of interiority. A number of these new networks of meaning were being produced and negotiated in the nineteenth century and this paper will explore this encounter between the face and the camera.
Speaker : Dr. N. A. Jacob teaches English Literature at Ramjas College, University of Delhi. His doctoral research at Rutgers University is on nineteenth-century British literature and explores the literary and philosophical questions arising out of the relationship between the verbal and the visual. His current work focuses on the history of photography and its intersections with the literary in the nineteenth century.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Idea of the Face’ by Dr. N.A. Jacob, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.
Abstract : How did the face come to serve as the visual guarantee of singular identity? What do we seek in the face of the other? In the theatre of looks, what specific play of presence and absence does the face offer? Can one look at a face without being implicated in a fantasy of legibility? And yet, the knowledge that faces offer can be next to nothing or almost everything—from a zero degree mark of identity, like a fingerprint, all the way to a rich compendium of the elements that signify character and intention. The birth of photography in the nineteenth century marks a decisive rupture in the history of the face and its representations. Images produced in the dark recesses of the camera appear to be free of human intervention, thus elevating the photographed face to the status of objective knowledge. But this mechanical representation of the face also enables a whole of range of affective relations and re-constitutes the face and its meanings so fundamentally that now, every face is the shadow produced by its photographic representation. The photographic image of the face assumes a new network of relationships to the self, others, time and the idea of interiority. A number of these new networks of meaning were being produced and negotiated in the nineteenth century and this paper will explore this encounter between the face and the camera.
Speaker : Dr. N. A. Jacob teaches English Literature at Ramjas College, University of Delhi. His doctoral research at Rutgers University is on nineteenth-century British literature and explores the literary and philosophical questions arising out of the relationship between the verbal and the visual. His current work focuses on the history of photography and its intersections with the literary in the nineteenth century.
'Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Idea of the Face' a talk by Dr. N.A. Jacob at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 1st April 2014
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