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Title Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia / edited by Susie Protschky
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- Governing Lenses on Ethical Policy and Practice -- Part II -- Local Lenses on Living in an "Ethical" Indies -- 1. Camera Ethica: Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia / Susie Protschky -- 2. Ethical policies in moving pictures: The films of J.C. Lamster / Jean Gelman Taylor -- 3. Ethical projects, ethnographic orders and colonial notions of modernity in Dutch Borneo: G.L. Tichelman's Queen's Birthday photographs from the late 1920s / Susie Protschky -- 4. Saving the children? : The Ethical Policy and photographs of colonial atrocity during the Aceh War / Paul Bijl -- 5. Interracial unions and the Ethical Policy: The representation of the everyday in Indo-European family photo albums / Pamela Pattynama -- 6. Reversing the lens: Kartini's image of a modernised Java / Joost Coté -- 7. Modelling modernity: Ethnic Chinese photography in the ethical era / Karen Strassler -- 8. Modernity and middle classes in the Netherlands Indies: Cultivating cultural citizenship / Henk Schulte Nordholt -- 9. Say "cheese" : Images of captivity in Boven Digoel (1927-43) / Rudolf Mrázek
Summary 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
Analysis Colonial Indonesia, Netherlands Indies, Photography, History, colonial reform
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Photography -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
Photography -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century
Asian history.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
Civilization
Colonial influence
Photography
Photography -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Indonesia -- Colonial influence -- History -- 20th century
Indonesia -- Civilization -- 20th century
Subject Indonesia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Protschky, Susie, editor.
ISBN 9048523389
9789048523382