(In)visible Subjects
Pranlal Patel's Women at Work in Ahmedabad, India, 1937
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22006014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Trivedi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Trans Asia Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2025 • E-ISSN: 2158-2025 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/21582025-10924838 |
| OpenAlex | W4390901976 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Approximately one hundred photographs of women at work in the city of Ahmedabad, India, were taken in 1937 by Pranlal K. Patel, at the request of the premier women's social reform organization, the Jyoti Sangh. Rather than depicting women's contributions as peripheral to the productivity of Ahmedabad's economic life and isolated from the public, Patel pictured women as subjects working in the city's major marketplaces and as integral to the city's industrial productivity. This article argues that historical photography may provide what Elizabeth Edwards terms a “historiographical think-space” that challenges conventional historical sources and the narratives they produce. By engaging Ariella Azoulay's ethical spectators in the civil contract of photography, historians can use historical photography to confront the historical roots of inequality that shape our world today
Art · Economic growth · Economics · Historiography · Media studies · Narrative · Photography · Political science · Productivity · Public space · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |