مدونة مكتبة وتكنولوجيا

Photographer  Karen Knorr   Brings Indian Myths to Life If you are an artist interested in how power and politics manifest through art and design, you’ll inevitably find yourself investigating India and its history at some point, just as London-based photographer  Karen Knorr  recently did. Well read, politically sensitive and a conceptual art-savvy photographer,  Knorr  has travelled across Northern India since 2008, photographing the interiors of the land’s opulent and colourful old palaces, temples and forts with a large format Sinar camera (in a way that inevitably reminds of  Robert Polidori’s Versailles  project and of course the oeuvre of  Massimo Listri ). What makes  Knorr ’s work stand out however, is the way in which she combines these awe-inspiring interiors — a persistent symbol of princely power and affluence — with the images of local animals, as if the world was turned on its head and the birds, mammals and reptiles of India have taken over. This polysemous and visually