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Abstract Photography’s ability to make a phenomenon believable authenticates it as an act to record memory to archive pictorial heritage. Photography has a strong role in building collective visual narratives based on memories over the course of history. Due to trustworthiness in its character photography has been used in articulating individual and collective identities. This paper re-identifies par excellence writer, columnist, and poet Munnu Bhai, by a visit through a brief selection of his portraits captured over significant phases of his life. It investigates the sitter through semiotic analysis theories invented by leading critics in order to explore Munnu Bhai’s journey, his passions, failures and successes keeping in view his socio-economic predispositions. Whilst interpreting first layer of ‘representation’ of a posed celebrity, Munnu Bhai, in front of the camera ‘who thinks who he is’ or ‘he wants others to think who he is’, and by sensing Barthes ‘air’ or seeing the unseen at the deeper layer. Hence, this paper rediscovers his ‘aura and beyond’ by re-describing the connotations apparently subdued in the photographic frame.

Ahmad Bilal, Aysha Bilal. (2018) Munnu Bhai; Aura and Beyond through Portraiture, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 31, issue 1.
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