Research Catalog
Amek Gambar : taking pictures : Peranakans and photography
- Title
- Amek Gambar : taking pictures : Peranakans and photography / edited by Peter Lee ; contributions by Joachim K. Bautze [and eight others].
- Publication
- Singapore : Asian Civilisations Museum, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- 420 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm
- Alternative Title
- Taking pictures : Peranakans and photography
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Portraits.
- Note
- 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-415) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- DS610.25.P47
- ISBN
- 9789811426254
- 9811426252
- OCLC
- 1226678265
- on1226678265
- SCSB-14252966
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries