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Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs (Envisioning Asia) (1st Edition) by Christopher Pinney Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-226-66866-5 / 0226668665 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66866-6 / 9780226668666 A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These quiet but moving images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic anthropologist Christopher Pinney explores in |