Hinduism considers cows to be sacred animals. This has concurred to cows’ stereotypical depiction as religious and political icons, especially in chromolithographs that enjoyed a huge appreciation in the last two centuries of Indian history. At a visual level these images were extremely powerful but they did not depict cows as living beings who also struggle, suffer, and die.
The real life of holy cows. How photography has turned cows from sacred icons into mundane animals
Deborah Nadal
2017-01-01
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Hinduism considers cows to be sacred animals. This has concurred to cows’ stereotypical depiction as religious and political icons, especially in chromolithographs that enjoyed a huge appreciation in the last two centuries of Indian history. At a visual level these images were extremely powerful but they did not depict cows as living beings who also struggle, suffer, and die.
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