Professional Documents
Culture Documents
WK 7 Photography: Zhuang Wubin 2016
WK 7 Photography: Zhuang Wubin 2016
• Colonial photography
• Local photographers
• Photo studios and photo clubs
• Concepts/genres of photography
• Concepts of the photographer
• Photo journalism
• Commercial photography
• Contemporary art photography and urban culture in Indonesia
Daguerreotype
http://www.novacon.com.br/odditycameras/giroux_arquivos/image006.jpg
The colonial roots of photography
• 1839: the French government presented the daguerreotype
• as a ‘free gift’ to the world
• http://senirupapura.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/pengaruh-kubisme-di-indonesia.html
Painter-critic Kusnadi (1921-1997)
• Photography as pure art originates from the artist's intense observations of people
and nature
• Not a copy of realities or events
• Unpredictable and unique
Journalism and nationalism
• Photo journalism in Dutch publications of the 1920s
• WW 2: the Indonesian news agency Antara (founded in 1937) was absorbed into the
Japanese Domei news agency
• Mohamad Sayuti (1926-98), Abdoel Kadir Said (1998) and Abdoel Wahab Saleh (1923-82)
emerged as pro-independence photographers for the Antara news agency
• The Antara archive was decimated by Dutch soldiers during the second ‘police action’ in
December 1948
• 1965: its photo bureau was shut down and would not be revived until 1976
Different concepts of photography
• Commercial practices like fashion, advertising and journalism
• Focus on technical competency
• Photography merely as documentation or accompaniment of journalistic work
• Salon photography
• Borrowed from the aesthetic framework of painting
• http://i1.wp.com/dgi.or.id/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Personal-Decenta.jpg?
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Modern art photography
• Fashion photography
• Reflecting the urbanity of Jakarta
• A kind of documentary practice to explore issues of
identity from a cultural or political standpoint