Refracted Visions - Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

Informationen zum Autor Karen Strassler Klappentext An illustrated study of the ways in which photography and visual culture have influenced people in Java to see themselves as Indonesians. Zusammenfassung A generously illustrated ethnography arguing that popular photographic practices have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Note on Orthography and Psedudonyms xxi Introduction: Popular Photography and Indonesian National Modernity 1 1. Amateur Visions 29 2. Landscapes of the Imagination 73 3. Identifying Citizens 123 4. Family Documentation 165 5. Witnessing History 207 6. Revelatory Signs 251 Epilogue: Beyond the Paper Trace 295 Notes 301 Bibliography 345 Index 363

Product details

• Authors: Karen Strassler
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2010
• EAN: 9780822346111
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4611-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV