Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia

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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia is written by Susie Protschky and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040789420 (ISBN 10) and 9781040789421 (ISBN 13).

The essays in this volume examine, from a historical perspective, how contested notions of modernity, civilization, and being governed were envisioned through photography in early twentieth-century Indonesia, a period when the Dutch colonial regime was implementing a liberal reform program known as the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically governed colony, one in which the very concepts of modernity and civilization were subject to dispute.