Photo Peshawar
Photo Peshawar delves into the largely unexplored culture of photography in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar from the 1940s to the present day.
- Category: All Books, MAPIN20, Photography
“The book is a delight for photography buffs and the serious researcher of the ‘Frontier’. ” —Pramod Pushkarna, National Herald
With nearly hundred and fifty photographs, each more stunning than the earlier, ‘photography as craft is what this splendid volume examines—photography at the living, bleeding intersection of culture, war, frontier and fantasy, the sheer human inventiveness that results from a magnificent and tragic brew of technology and history.’
Sean Foley, an Irish ethnographer specialising in visual anthropology, works as a researcher on art projects. He first made it to Afghanistan in 2002. Foley has made ethnographic films on mortuary workers in India, tourism in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and cultural ecology in the south of Greece.
Lukas Birk is an Austrian artist, storyteller, and conservator. His multi-disciplinary projects have been turned into films, chronicles, books, and exhibitions. A large part of Birk’s work deals with archival material he collects through travel or while delving into his own background.
ISBN | 9789385360466 |
Pages | 240 |
Number of photographs | 142 colour photographs |
Size | 5.83 x 8.27" (148 x 210 mm), hc-plc |
Date of Publishing | 2018 |
Language(s) | English |
Co-publisher(s) | Mapin in association with PIX Publishing. |
Rights Available | World rights |
—Smriti Rajgarhia, Serendipity Arts Foundation