Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India pandemic Copy Editor Alex Merola

Copy Editor Alex Merola

Texts: A Proposal: Women in Matrimonial Photographs by Cheryl Mukherji

I don’t find superficial emotions emanating through his lens from either the subjects or from the photographer

researcher and curator with a PhD in Cultural Studies

Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India pandemic Copy Editor Alex MerolaShilpi Goswami, Suryanandini Narain, (eds.) Long neglected in academic discourse in India, family photographs make a silent contribution to the histories of photography, marginality and the family. In this volume, the writers dwell on the importance of family photographs and their visual omnipresence in our daily lives. They point out how family photographs have belonged to the vernacular material of visual culture, more seen and lived with, less