Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia / / ed. by Susie Protschky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bijl, Paul,; Coté, Joost,; Mrázek, Rudolf,; Nordholt, Henk Schulte,; Pattynama, Pamela,; Protschky, Susie,; Strassler, Karen,; Taylor, Jean Gelman,
• HerausgeberIn: Protschky, Susie,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 11 color plates, 29 halftones

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Governing Lenses on Ethical Policy and Practice
• 1. Camera Ethica. Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia
• 2. Ethical policies in moving pictures. The films of J.C. Lamster
• 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
• 4. Saving the children? The Ethical Policy and photographs of colonial atrocity during the Aceh War
• Part II: Local Lenses on Living in an “Ethical” Indies
• 5. Interracial unions and the Ethical Policy The representation of the everyday in Indo-European family photo albums
• 6. Reversing the lens. Kartini’s image of a modernised Java
• 7. Modelling modernity. Ethnic Chinese photography in the ethical era
• 8. Modernity and middle classes in the Netherlands Indies. Cultivating cultural citizenship
• 9. Say “cheese”. Images of captivity in Boven Digoel (1927-43)