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Amek Gambar : taking pictures : Peranakans and photography / edited by Peter Lee ; contributions by Joachim K. Bautze [and eight others].
LIBRA DS610.25.P47 A498 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peranakan (Asian people)--Singapore--Exhibitions.
- Peranakan (Asian people).
- Peranakan (Asian people)--Portraits--Exhibitions.
- Peranakan Museum (Singapore)--Exhibitions.
- Peranakan Museum (Singapore).
- Singapore.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Portraits.
- Physical Description:
- 420 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Taking pictures : Peranakans and photography
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, [2020]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Chiefly illustrated.
- This catalog accompanies the exhibition Amek Gambar - Taking Pictures : Peranakans and Photography, held at the Peranakan Museum, Singapore, from 5 May 2018 to 3 February 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-415) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789811426254
- 9811426252
- OCLC:
- 1226678265
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