The 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.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I – Governing Lenses on Ethical Policy and Practice
- 1. Camera Ethica: Photography, modernity and the governed in late-colonial Indonesia / Susie Protschky
- 2. Ethical policies in moving pictures: The films of J.C. Lamster / Jean Gelman Taylor
- 3. Ethical projects, ethnographic orders and colonial notions of modernity in Dutch Borneo: G.L. Tichelman’s Queen’s Birthday photographs from the late 1920s / Susie Protschky
- 4. Saving the children? : The Ethical Policy and photographs of colonial atrocity during the Aceh War / Paul Bijl
- Part II – Local Lenses on Living in an “Ethical” Indies
- 5. Interracial unions and the Ethical Policy: The representation of the everyday in Indo-European family photo albums / Pamela Pattynama
- 6. Reversing the lens: Kartini’s image of a modernised Java / Joost Coté
- 7. Modelling modernity: Ethnic Chinese photography in the ethical era / Karen Strassler
- 8. Modernity and middle classes in the Netherlands Indies: Cultivating cultural citizenship / Henk Schulte Nordholt
- 9. Say “cheese” : Images of captivity in Boven Digoel (1927-43) / Rudolf Mrázek
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