Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-Colonial Indonesia

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.

Year

2015

Language

English

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Editions

3

Pages

245

ISBN

9789089646620

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