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Book SynopsisThe 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 the Ethical Policy. The contributors reveal how the camera evoked diverse, often contradictory modes of envisioning an ethically governed colony, one in which the very concepts of modernity and civilization were subject to dispute.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Susie Protschky, 'Camera ethica - Lenses on modernity, civilisation and being governed in late-colonial Indonesia.' Part One - Governing Lenses on Ethical Policy and Practice Chapter One: Jean Gelman Taylor, 'Ethical policies in moving pictures: The films of J.C. Lamster.' Chapter Two: Susie Protschky, 'Ethical projects, ethnographic orders and colonial notions of modernity in Dutch Borneo: G.L. Tichelman's Queen's Birthday photographs from the late 1920s.' Chapter Three: Paul Bijl, 'Saving the children? The Ethical Policy and photographs of colonial atrocity during the Aceh War.' Part Two - Local Lenses on living in an 'ethical' Indies Chapter Four: Pamela Pattynama, 'Interracial unions and the Ethical Policy: The representation of the everyday in Indo-European family photo albums.' Chapter Five: Joost Coté, 'Reversing the lens: Kartini's image of a modernised Java.' Chapter Six: Karen Strassler, 'Modeling modernity: Ethnic Chinese photography in the ethical era.' Chapter Seven: Henk Schulte Nordholt, 'Modernity and middle classes in the Netherlands Indies: Cultivating cultural citizenship.' Chapter Eight: Rudolf Mrázek, 'Say "cheese": Images of captivity in Boven Digoel (1927-1943).'
