Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

Title

Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

Subject

Photography -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Java. Portrait photography -- Indonesia -- Java. Group identity -- Indonesia -- Java. Memory.

Description

In the 1950s, young women posed in a convertible roaring through a tropical landscape. A university student dodges police batons to snap a picture at a political demonstration in 1998. This title argues that the photographic practices such as these have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java.

Creator

Strassler, Karen

Publisher

Duke University Press

Date

2010

Type

TR183 .S77

Identifier

2003.500.3731

Collection