ABSTRACT
Continuing with the idea of a contemporary aesthetic that is precipitated through the “disintegration” of the original tie between expressive form and content or subject matter, this chapter stages a shift in the discussion – it rescales the focus of the study from the national to an account of metropolitan life in Indian cities through a focus on the oeuvre of the acclaimed photographer Dayanita Singh; and it suggests, in an intermedial analysis of the idea of late style, that the perceptual possibilities of the novel form in India, as outlined in previous chapters, persists in, and is also transformed by, the photographic image and its contemporary uses.
