Amek Gambar
Subtitle: taking pictures : Peranakans and photography
By: edited by Peter Lee ; contributions by Joachim K. Bautze [and eight others]
Contributors: Peranakan Museum (Singapore)
Publisher: Asian Civilisations Museum
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9789811426254
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Peranakan (Asian people); Exhibitions; Portraits; Peranakan (Peuple d'Asie); Expositions; Peranakan Museum (Singapore)
Other titles: Taking pictures :
Notes: Chiefly illustrated.

This catalog accompanies the exhibition Amek Gambar - Taking Pictures : Peranakans and Photography, held at the Peranakan Museum, Singapore, from 5 May 2018 to 3 February 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-415) and index.
Table of contents: title: Director's Foreword; title: Foreword. Treasured momentos: Photographs as personal and collective histories; title: Securing the shadow: Looking back at the Peranakan Museum's collection of photographs / Dominic Low; title: Jules Itier in Singapore / Gilles Massot; title: F. Jagor's Photographs from Singapore and Malacca / Joachim K. Bautze; title: A world of portraits: John Thomson's beginnings as a photographer in the Straits Settlements / Gael Newton; title: "An Overall Picture of Life in Further India": August Sachtler in Singapore / Sebastian Dobson; title: G. R. Lambert & Co.: Creators of the lasting image of nineteenth-century Singapore / Joachim K. Bautze; title: The earliest photographs; title: Arrival of photography in Singapore; title: Chinese and Japanese studios; title: A negative perspective; title: World of color; title: Keeping photographs; title: Portrait as identification; title: Drawing photos; title: Peranakans and photography: Invention, reinvention, and the camera's role in cultural disorder / Peter Lee; title: Chinese photographers and elite networks in the Dutch East Indies / Liesbeth Ouwehand; title: Chinese Indonesians and the Dutch Monarchy / Susie Protschky; title: Social and historical aspects of Peranakan portraits / J. Casey Hammond; title: Portraits enshrined; title: Multiple identities; title: From self to selfie; title: Collective memories; title: The social Peranakan; title: Artistic enterprises; title: List of images; title: Appendix 1: Chinese photographers represented in the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden University Libraries; title: Appendix 2: Photographers and photography studios represented in the Peranakan Museum collection; title: Appendix 3: Joachim K. Bautze essays in full. F. Jagor's Photographs from Singapore and Malacca; title: G. R. Lambert & Co.: Creators of the lasting image of nineteenth-century Singapore; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Index of photographers and studios; title: Author biographies.