Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia

• Tác giả: Susie Protschky
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 9089646620
• ISBN-13: 978-9089646620
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 006.686 Special computer methods
• Mô tả vật lý: 280 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Công nghệ thông tin
• ID: 282065
• Chủ đề: 1. Photography--Social aspects--20th century--Indonesia; 2. Photography--History--20th century--Indonesia

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

This powerful study examines how contested notions of modernity, civilisation and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia when a reform programme known as the Ethical Policy was being implemented under the Dutch colonial regime. This is the first work to examine ethical ways of seeing through photography, a medium whose proliferation coincided with significant social and political change in colonial Indonesia.