Garden of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s

by Gael Newton

Garden of the East opens the door to a time of change in Indonesia in the century before independence from Dutch colonial interests. It takes the journey from the beginnings of photography in the region in the 1850s, which were driven by colonial interests, to the rise of the self-made Indonesian man and the upheaval before liberation in 1945, painting a portrait of the former Dutch East Indies and its eventual end.

The portrait...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0642334455
• ISBN13: 9780642334459
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.1" x 9.2"