Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India pandemic Bharat Sikka’s ‘The Sapper’ is

Bharat Sikka’s ‘The Sapper’ is as multi-layered as the relationship that it narrates between a father and an adult son

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Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India pandemic Bharat Sikka’s ‘The Sapper’ isShilpi 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