Photographic Subjects
Monarchy and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia
Description:... "This book examines photography at royal celebrations during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898-1948) and Juliana (1948-80), a period spanning the zenith and fall of Dutch rule in Indonesia. It reveals how photographs taken at Queen's Day celebrations were used to record the ritual functions of royal portraits in the colonies, and how albums became objects of exchange across colonial networks. Royal photographs associated the queens with colonial modernity and modes of governing difference across a discontinuous and ethnically diverse empire. As the book shows, they have strongly gendered and racial dimensions, in that they depict Wilhelmina and Juliana as female kings who related to their Dutch and Indigenous subjects in different visual registers.Advancing methods in the uses of photographs for social and cultural history, Photographic subjects reveals the entanglement of Dutch and Indonesian histories in the twentieth century and provides a new interpretation of Queens Wilhelmina and Juliana as imperial monarchs." -- Back cover.
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