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Amek gambar = Taking pictures : peranakans and photography
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- Creator
- exhibition curators, Peter Lee, Dominic Low ; Joachim K. Bautze [and eight others] ; edited by Peter Lee
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, [2020]
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- 420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789811426254, 9811426252
- OCLC
- on1249715366
- Catalog of an exhibition held May 5, 2018 to February 3, 2019 at Peranakan Museum, Singapore.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-415) and index.
- In English.
- Director's Foreword -- Foreword. Treasured momentos: Photographs as personal and collective histories -- Securing the shadow: Looking back at the Peranakan Museum's collection of photographs / Dominic Low -- Jules Itier in Singapore / Gilles Massot -- F. Jagor's Photographs from Singapore and Malacca / Joachim K. Bautze -- A world of portraits: John Thomson's beginnings as a photographer in the Straits Settlements / Gael Newton -- "An Overall Picture of Life in Further India": August Sachtler in Singapore / Sebastian Dobson -- G. R. Lambert & Co.: Creators of the lasting image of nineteenth-century Singapore / Joachim K. Bautze -- The earliest photographs -- Arrival of photography in Singapore -- Chinese and Japanese studios -- A negative perspective -- World of color -- Keeping photographs -- Portrait as identification -- Drawing photos -- Peranakans and photography: Invention, reinvention, and the camera's role in cultural disorder / Peter Lee -- Chinese photographers and elite networks in the Dutch East Indies / Liesbeth Ouwehand -- Chinese Indonesians and the Dutch Monarchy / Susie Protschky -- Social and historical aspects of Peranakan portraits / J. Casey Hammond -- Portraits enshrined -- Multiple identities -- From self to selfie -- Collective memories -- The social Peranakan -- Artistic enterprises -- List of images -- Appendix 1: Chinese photographers represented in the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden University Libraries -- Appendix 2: Photographers and photography studios represented in the Peranakan Museum collection -- Appendix 3: Joachim K. Bautze essays in full. F. Jagor's Photographs from Singapore and Malacca -- G. R. Lambert & Co.: Creators of the lasting image of nineteenth-century Singapore -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of photographers and studios -- Author biographies
Subjects
- Peranakan (Asian people) -- Southeast Asia -- Exhibitions.
- Peranakan (Asian people) -- Southeast Asia -- Catalogs.
- Portrait photography -- Southeast Asia -- Exhibitions.
- Portrait photography -- Southeast Asia -- Catalogs.
- Photography -- Southeast Asia -- History -- Exhibitions.
- Photography -- Southeast Asia -- History -- Catalogs.