Refracted Visions Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

Name: Refracted Visions Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
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ISBN: 9780822346111

ISBN-10: 0822346117

ISBN-13: 9780822346111

Edition: 2010

Authors: Karen Strassler

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At a photography studio in the 1950s, young women pose in a convertible roaring through a tropical landscape. In the mid-1990s, an amateur photographer plans to submit his photograph of children performing a traditional dance to a photo competition sponsored by an international cultural agency. A university student dodges police batons to snap a picture at a political demonstration during the reformasi movement of 1998. InRefracted Visions, a copiously illustrated ethnography including more than thirty colour images, Karen Strassler argues that popular photographic practices such as these have played a crucial role in the making of modern national subjects in postcolonial Java. Contending…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Orthography and Psedudonyms


Introduction: Popular Photography and Indonesian National Modernity



Amateur Visions



Landscapes of the Imagination



Identifying Citizens



Family Documentation



Witnessing History



Revelatory Signs


Epilogue: Beyond the Paper Trace


Notes


Bibliography


Index