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