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Title PH1 Photographs of the Netherlands East Indies: at the Tropenmuseum
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Call Number 746.02 DIJ p
ISBN/ISSN 978 - 9460221934
Author(s) Janneke Van Dijk
Rob Jongmans
Subject(s) Official and social life
colonial portrait photography
Classification 746.02 DIJ p
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Language English
Publisher yayasan harapan kita
Publishing Year 2012
Publishing Place Amsterdam
Collation 152 p ; 26.5 cm
Abstract/Notes This is the fourth volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany them. The books elucidate the often hidden backgrounds of a museum collection, discussing objects within their original context, social histories and their contemporary meaning. The main emphasis lies on the history of each collection, with its different collecting and presentation practices placed in a particular time and place. Each volume is richly illustrated with objects and photographs from the Tropenmuseum collection.

Photographs of the Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum offers a comprehensive introduction to one of the most important collections of colonial photography in the world. There is no other collection at the Tropenmuseum which is so closely tied to the history of the institute itself. Photographs were already being collected in the late nineteenth century and have been continuously supplemented with new images to create the broadest possible perspective of topical developments in the Netherlands East Indies. After Indonesia declared its independence in 1945, the importance of the collection of historic photographs declined and it was consigned to obscurity. Interest in the collection blossomed again later when a large group of people in the Netherlands came to view them as reflecting a lost and increasingly romanticized world. From the 1980s the collection became a source of historical information and the subject of wide-scale academic research.

Illustrated with more than 120 full color photographs, this publication provides insights into how attitudes towards the collection have changed over the past 150 years and the various ways in which they have been used by the Tropenmuseum and its predecessors.
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