Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-Colonial Indonesia
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9789089646620
Subjects: Indonesia, description and travel; Indonesia, history
Description: 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.