Photography In Southeast Asia

Author : Zhuang Wubin
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 981472212X
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photography in Southeast Asia written by Zhuang Wubin and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. The narrative begins in the colonial era, at the point when the transfer of photographic technology occurred between visiting practitioners and local photographers. With individual chapters dedicated to the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam, the bulk of the book spans the post-World War Two era to the contemporary, focusing on practitioners who operate with agency and autonomy. The relationship between art and photography, which has been defined very narrowly over the decades, is re-examined in the process. Photography also offers an entry point into the cultural and social practices of the region, and a prism into the personal desires and creative decisions of its practitioners.

Author : Charmaine Toh
Publisher : National Gallery Singapore
ISBN 13 : 981184044X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia written by Charmaine Toh and published by National Gallery Singapore. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated catalogue examines the power of photography and its mobilisation within systems of knowledge and representation across Southeast Asian societies. Rather than just thinking about what photographs show, Living Pictures explores what photographs do, acknowledging that photographs have lives—they move and they act—and in the process, they affect the world around them. This groundbreaking catalogue accompanies the world’s first-ever survey of the medium’s histories across Southeast Asia, from its earliest beginnings in the 19th century until its diverse contemporary manifestations. It traces the creation, circulation and consumption of photography and how these processes have shaped the visual regimes of the region, through essays by the Living Pictures curators, interviews with artists and photographers featured in the exhibition, comprehensive plates including never-before-published images, and new research by leading international scholars focusing on the interdisciplinary intersections between photography and art history, archaeology and cultural theory.

Author : Rosalind C. Morris
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391821
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photographies East written by Rosalind C. Morris and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Photographies East, Rosalind C. Morris notes that although the camera is now a taken-for-granted element of everyday life in most parts of the world, it is difficult to appreciate “the shock and sense of utter improbability that accompanied the new technology” as it was introduced in Asia (and elsewhere). In this collection, scholars of Asia, most of whom are anthropologists, describe frequent attribution of spectral powers to the camera, first brought to Asia by colonialists, as they examine the transformations precipitated or accelerated by the spread of photography across East and Southeast Asia. In essays resonating across theoretical, historical, and geopolitical lines, they engage with photography in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand, and on the islands of Aru, Aceh, and Java in what is now Indonesia. The contributors analyze how in specific cultural and historical contexts, the camera has affected experiences of time and subjectivity, practices of ritual and tradition, and understandings of death. They highlight the links between photography and power, looking at how the camera has figured in the operations of colonialism, the development of nationalism, the transformation of monarchy, and the militarization of violence. Moving beyond a consideration of historical function or effect, the contributors also explore the forms of illumination and revelation for which the camera has offered itself as instrument and symbol. And they trace the emergent forms of alienation and spectralization, as well as the new kinds of fetishism, that photography has brought in its wake. Taken together, the essays chart a bravely interdisciplinary path to visual studies, one that places the particular knowledge of a historicized anthropology in a comparative frame and in conversation with aesthetics and art history. Contributors. James L. Hevia, Marilyn Ivy, Thomas LaMarre, Rosalind C. Morris, Nickola Pazderic, John Pemberton, Carlos Rojas, James T. Siegel, Patricia Spyer

Author : Roger Nelson
Publisher : National Gallery Singapore
ISBN 13 : 9811147256
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Art of Southeast Asia: Introductions from A to Z written by Roger Nelson and published by National Gallery Singapore. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Art of Southeast Asia: Introductions from A to Z features 60 concise and accessibly written accounts of the key ideas and currents underlying modern art in the region. These are accompanied by over 250 beautifully reproduced artworks from the collection of National Gallery Singapore, and other public and private collections in Southeast Asia and beyond. The book offers an informative first encounter with art as well as refreshing perspectives, and is a rewarding resource for students.

Author : Charmaine Toh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789811865435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Pictures written by Charmaine Toh and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Charles E. Tuttle Company
ISBN 13 : 9789810027339
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Malaysia, Heart of Southeast Asia written by Gavin Young and published by Charles E. Tuttle Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project to capture Malaysia's natural history, culture and heritage.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1682808580
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let's Explore Southeast Asia (Most Famous Attractions in Southeast Asia) written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are lots of fun and religious places in Southeast Asia. Would you like to visit them? This picture book showcases all these places so you can explore them without actually leaving home. Picture books fuel your child's acceptance of learning. The use of pictures ensure universal understanding too. Your child does not need to master reading in order to appreciate this unique book.

Author : Gregory Forth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135784302
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia written by Gregory Forth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines ‘wildmen’such as Homo floresiensis and ebu gogo, images of hairy humanlike creatures known to rural villagers and other local people in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. It explores the source of these representations and their status in local systems of knowledge.

Author : Morten Strange
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462914349
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Photographic Guide to the Birds of Thailand written by Morten Strange and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuttle is proud to present the very first comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of mainland Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Borneo. Included are the birds of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Indochina, as well as those found in South China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. This book covers 668 species and contains more than 700 colour photographs. There is a distribution map for each species. Many of the photographs in this magnificent volume appear for the first time and have been carefully selected to show the most important species. The concise text provides vital information that will ensure accurate identification of species in one of the world's most diverse avifauna regions. Indispensable reading for all bird lovers.

Author : Sarah Tiffin
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971698498
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southeast Asia in Ruins written by Sarah Tiffin and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of progress and power in images and descriptions of Southeast Asia’s ruined Hindu and Buddhist candi, pagodas, wats and monuments. To the British eye, images of the remains of past civilisations allowed, indeed stimulated, philosophical meditations on the rise and decline of entire empires. Ruins were witnesses to the fall, humbling and disturbingly prophetic prompts to speculation on imperial failure, and the remains of the Buddhist and Hindu monuments scattered across Southeast Asia proved no exception. This important study of a highly appealing but relatively neglected body of work adds multiple dimensions to the history of art and image production in Britain of the period, showing how the anxieties of empire were encoded in the genre of landscape paintings and prints.