Garden of the East : photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s / Gael Newton ; with contributions by Matt Cox, Vigen Galstyan, Anneke Groeneveld, Annabelle Lacour, Anne Maxwell, Anne O'Hehir, Susie Protschky, Alexander Supartono.

Author(s): Newton, Gael

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Main Title
Garden of the East : photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s
Author(s)
Newton, Gael
Publisher
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2014
Collation
176 p. : ill. (some col.), map, portraits (some col.)
24 cm
ISBN
9780642334459
Dewey Class
770.9598
Contents
Foreword / Ron Radford, Director, National Gallery of Australia -- Sponsor's message / Jeremy Thorpe, Managing Partner, PwC Canberra -- Silver streams : photography arrives in Southeast Asia 1840s-1880s / Gael Newton -- A change of pace : professional, pictorial and personal photography 1890s-1940s / Gael Newton -- Personal albums from early twentieth-century Indonesia / Susie Protschky -- Colonial machine : the image of industry / Alexander Supartono -- Family portraits adrift / Anne O'Hehir -- Kassian Céphas, a self-made man / Matt Cox -- Herman Salzwedel, antiquity and the camera / Susie Protschky -- Ohannes Kurkdjian's duality / Vigen Galstyan -- George Lewis and Mooi Indie art / Susie Protschky -- Thilly Weissenborn's luminous touch / Anne Maxwell -- Gregor Krause's Bali and Borneo / Anneke Groeneveld -- Gotthard Schuh and the Island of the Gods / Annabelle Lacour -- Plates -- The collection.
Language
English
Subject
Photographers -- Indonesia -- History -- Exhibitions.
Photography -- Indonesia -- History -- Exhibitions.
BRN
5304

Notes

  • "The National Gallery's archive of photographs from Indonesia is based on the collection acquired in 2006 from Dutch rare-book and print dealer Leo Haks"--Page 171.
  • Sponsored by pwc, National Gallery of Australia Council Exhibitions Fund.
  • "Published in conjunction with Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s, 21 February-22 June 2014, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. A full list of works in the exhibition is included at nga.gov.au/gardeneast"--Page 176.

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