Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia / edited by Susie Protschky.

Other author Protschky, Susie.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam, The Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Description280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Governing lenses on ethical policy and practice. Camera ethica : photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia -- Ethical policies in moving pictures : the films of J.C. Lamster -- Ethical projects, ethnographic orders and colonial notions of modernity in Dutch Borneo -- Saving the children? The ethical policy and photographs of colonial atrocity during the Aceh War -- Local lenses on living in an "ethical" Indies. Interracial unions and the ethical policy : the representation of the everyday in Indo-European family photo albums -- Reversing the lens : Kartini's image of a modernised Java -- Modelling modernity : ethnic Chinese photography in the ethical era -- Modernity and the middle classes in the Netherlands Indies : cultivating cultural citizenship -- Say "cheese" : images of captivity in Boven Digoel.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2015449342
ISBN9789089646620 (hardback)
ISBN9089646620 (hardback)
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