Indonesian Photography 1850s-1940s

 

A resource page with links to research, essays and publications on Indonesian photography
with the emphasis on the pre independence period 1850s-1940s

 
 

The Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s
an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2014.

Click here for the link: Garden of the East  - on which there are numerous resource links down the page under the contents list,
including a link to a page about Thilly Weissenborn.
     
 

Towards Independence: A century of Indonesia photographed

online version of the original published in 1991
by The Friends of Photography, San Francisco

click here for the online version
     
 

To purchase a copy of Garden of The East

This 2014 catalogue is out of print

we know of one source with new copies (in August 2025)

the Asia Bookroom in Canberra

Click on the link above - put Gael Newton in the search
or maybe this search will still work - click here
     
 

Scott Merrillees publications:
Scott is an independent photo historian focusing on the history of photography in Indonesia.  His books:

Bali: Photography 1865-1939 (2025)
Faces of Indonesia: 500 Postcards 1900–1945 (2021)
Jakarta: Portraits of a Capital 1950–1980 (2015).
Greetings from Jakarta: Postcards of a Capital 1900–1950 (2012, 2013 and 2019, Dutch language 2012 edition)
Batavia in Nineteenth Century Photographs (2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2010)
     
  Brian C. Arnold (ed.)
A History of Photography in Indonesia:  From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age
     
  A link to a small collection of Indonesian photographs

 

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