We Were Here
We Were Here
Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference
by Sunil Gupta

Author(s)
Sunil Gupta
Publication
New York : Aperture, 2018
Scope
192 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
ISBN
9781597115285

Newspaper articles, speeches, and essays show Gupta’s crucial role at the center of grassroots queer and postcolonial organizing throughout an artistic career lived between Canada, the UK, and India. In his pieces about homosexuality in Indian cities, the AIDS crisis, the Black Arts Movement, or key figures including Joy Gregory and Robert Mapplethorpe, Gupta foregrounds the power of cultural activism in the politically fraught contexts of London and Delhi, and illuminates the essential connections between queer migration and self-discovery. Continually questioning given forms of identity, Gupta offers artists and curators multiple strategies of resistance, carving out space for new ways of imagining what it might mean to live, love, and create.


Person as subject
Sunil Gupta
Keywords
photography , critical aesthetics , racism , queerness
Location
Cabinet 30 - 5: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte
Remarks
Includes notes, index