Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia /edited by Susie Protschky.
Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia /edited by Susie Protschky.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (280 pages :) illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9048523389 9789048523382
Photography--History--Indonesia--20th century.
Photography--Social aspects--History--Indonesia--20th century.
Indonesia--Civilization--20th century.
Electronic Books.
TR113 / .P468 2015
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9048523389 9789048523382
Photography--History--Indonesia--20th century.
Photography--Social aspects--History--Indonesia--20th century.
Indonesia--Civilization--20th century.
Electronic Books.
TR113 / .P468 2015