Thomas Hobbes commissioned this now-famous frontispiece for his 1651 book Leviathan, to depict sovereign power as a persuasive artifice constituted by the people, who are simultaneously its active and its subjugated elements. [Click image for more]
This God’s eye-view photograph is from 150 feet above ground. It depicts a scene of battle from the Mahabharata, annually enacted in villages across South India. It depicts an egotistical prince, Duryodhana, who is about to be killed. He is surrounded by participants and onlookers, who will ritually apply vermilion drawn from his slain body onto their foreheads. [Click image for more]
Ground-level view during Mahabharata Festival. Photograph by Sashikanth Ananthachari. All rights reserved.
