| Abstrakt: |
Spurious drug bust photojournalism in India is dominated by a few types of images, repeated so regularly as to constitute their own visual trope. Given that hard evidence for fake drugs is notoriously hard to find, I ask: how does spurious drug bust photojournalism perform the truth of the fake? Using the interpretive tools of visual culture to explore the charge these images come to hold, I argue that spurious drug bust photojournalism invites its reader to see two rare things: (1) an unambiguous heroics of the Indian police, and (2) a reality of fake pharmaceuticals in India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
