Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia(English, Electronic book text, unknown)

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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia(English, Electronic book text, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Amsterdam University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048523389 (ISBN 10) and 9789048523382 (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.