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Travels with Indonesian Photography – The Plates
These plates were used throughout the essay's text:
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#A01: Untitled (Thilly Weissenborn working in Onnes Kurkdjian s studio), photographer unknown, silver gelatin print, c.1915. Courtesy Gael Newton & University of Leiden/KITLV. M.M. Weissenborn at work retouching in the Kurkdjian studio, Surabaya. |
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#A02: Ambonezen die hun huizen uitvluchten tijdens de aardbeving te Ambon (Ambonese who fled their homes during the Ambon earthquake), P. Najoan, 1898. Courtesy of KITLV and Leiden University, Creative Content program. |
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#A03: Yonge maagden op een offer-feest (Young maidens at a sacrificial feast), Thilly Weissenborn (attributed to N.V.
Photografisch Atelier Kurkdjian, Soerabaja, Java), silver gelatin print, 17.4 x 12.6 cm, c. 1915.
Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Singapore. |
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#A04: Installation view of Garden of the East: Photography in Indonesia 1850s-1940s at the National Gallery of Australia in 2014. The centre wall was dedicated to Kassian and Semuel Cephas.
Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. |
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#A05: Writing in the Rain (video still), FX Harsono, single channel video, 6’02”, 2011.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia and FX Harsono. |
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#A06: Princessor (Java), Cesar Diiben, lithographs drawn from daguerreotypes, c. 1857, in Diiben’s memoir, Reseminnen Jran Sodra och Norra Amerika, Asien och AJrika, Stockholm, 1886. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia Research Library. Diiben who was from an upper-class Swedish family, wandered the world for a decade as a daguerreotypist. He returned home to a respectable and uneventful life. His daguerreotypes are lost but lithographs from made for his 1886 memoir convey the quality of his work. |
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#A07: Cover of Minnen Jran Java [Memories Jrom Java]. In second fascicle of the author’s Minnen jran Ostindien [Memories of the East Indies] C E Fritzes, Stockholm, 1886. 24.10 x 15.5 cm sheet.
Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia Research Library |
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#A08: Untitled (Native Gamelan Java), Woodbury & Page, glass lantern slide,
published by Newton & Co. London, c. 1870. Private collection. |
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#A09: Hamengkubuwono VI Sultan of Yogyakarta, Woodbury & Page (photograph by Walter Woodbury) half plate ambrotypes, gilt highlights, applied color in original frames, c. 1858. Lee Kip Lin collection, Singapore. Courtesy of Gael Newton. |
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#A10: Consort of Hamengkubuwono VI, Woodbury & Page (photograph by Walter Woodbury) half plate ambrotypes, gilt highlights, applied color in original frames, c. 1858. Lee Kip Lin collection, Singapore.
Courtesy of Gael Newton. |
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#A11: Batavia Roode, Woodbury & Page, albumen photograph, 19.4 x 24.5 cm, c.1865.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2013). |
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#A12: Aloestruik, Herman Salzwedel, albumen print mounted on buff card with printed decorative border in white ink,
38 x 44 cm, c. 1880. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007) |
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#A13: Untitled (studio portrait of two Indonesian girls), C. Nieuwenhuis, albumen print,
28.2 x 21 cm, 1922. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). |
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#A14: Een Minangkabau rijstschuur en kinderen in een visvijver, Batipoeh (A Minangkabau rice bam and children in a fish pond, Batipoeh), C. Nieuwenhuis, albumen print,
27.6 x 21.7 cm, c. 1900. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra (purchased 2007). |
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#A15: Untitled (four portraits of pilgrims from Java, Sumatra and Celebes), Prof. Dr. C. (Christiaan) Snouch Hurgronje, plate XIX from the limited edition portfolio, collotype, 36.8 x 27.4 cm (page), 13.8 x 9.8 cm (each image), c. 1889. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). Dutch Arabist scholar Dr. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was one of the first to circulate photographs of the Haj and Mecca in the West but also made use of local photographers, like Doctor Abd al-Ghaffar and Muhammed Sadiq Bey. The images of Indonesian pilgrims are assumed to have been made in Aden. |
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#A16: Javanese photo album cover. Dates and dimensions unknown.
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). |
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#A17: Samsoedin album Borobudur trip and birthday for Anwar, unknown photographer, album page with silver gelatin photographs, 24 x 31.8 cm, 1930. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). |
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| #A18: Man climbing the front entrance to Borobudur, Kassian Cephas, albumen print, 22.2 x 16.1 cm, 1872. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). |
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#19: Untitled (Young Javanese woman), Kassian Cephas, albumen print,
13.7 x 9.8 cm, c. 1885. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007) |
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#20: Javaansche schooner Native beauty, Sem Cephas, lithograph, colour dyes, letterpress postcard, c. 1909. Private collection. |
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#21: Javanese dancer, Kassian Cephas, lithograph postcard promoting the Bintang Hindia Dutch-Malay magazine 1904-07. Private collection |
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| #22: Inlandsche schoolkinderen Bandoeng (Indonesian schoolchildren Bandung), attributed Cephas studio, colour lithograph, postcard of children reading B intang Hindia journal, c. 1905. Private collection |
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#23: KPM Boat ‘Read’from Aceh docked at Tanjung Priok, Java, Tan Tjie Lan, silver photograph, c. 1895. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). Located in North Jakarta, Tanung Priok is one of the busiest ports in Indonesia. A close look at the photograph reveals many Chinese active along the port. |
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#24: Tan Gw at Bing and a companion pose against a ‘Dutch’ backdrop. Tan Gwat Bing, silver gelatin print, c. 1900. Image courtesy of Didi Kwartananda and family. |
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#25: Portrait of a Peranakan woman, Semarang, Tan TjieLan ofSemarang, silver photograph mounted on card, 14.5 cm x 10.5 cm, c. 1925. Private collection |
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#26: Untitled, Tan Tjie Lan, back of studio portrait. Private Collection |
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#27: Ingestorte huizen van het siekenhuispersoneel na de aardbevingte Amboina (Collapsed houses of hospital staff after the Ambon earthquake), P. Najoan, 1898. Courtesy of KITLV and Leiden University, Creative Content program. |
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#28: Tjidens de aardbeving ingestorte huizen aan de Paradijsstraat te Ambon (Collapsed house on the Paradijsstraat in Ambon during the earthquake), P. Najoan Courtesy of KITLV and Leiden University, Creative Content program. |
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| #29: De eerst aanwezige ojficier van gezondheid met zijn familie te Ambon na de aardbeving (The first health officer with his family in Ambon after the earthquake), P. Najoan Courtesy of KITLV and Leiden University, Creative Content program. |
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#30: Prauwenhaven, vermodedelijk te Amboina (Prauwenhaven, presumably in Ambon), P. Najoan Courtesy of KITLV and Leiden University, Creative Content program. |
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#31: Vermoedelijk fotograafP. Najoan tussen de ingestorte huizen aan de hoofdstraat van de Chinese Kamp na de aardbeving te Amboina (Presumably photographer P. Najoan among the collapsed houses on the main street of the Chinese Camp after the earthquake in Amboina), photographer unknown, 1898. Courtesy of Gael Newton and KITLV/University of Leiden. |
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#32: Women on Road in Bali, K. Satake, silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 22 cm, c. 1928. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007). |
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#33: Eruption, K. Satake, silver gelatin print, 16.2 x 21.8 cm, c. 1930. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (purchased 2007) |
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#34: Untitled, Thilly Weissenborn (attributed to N.V. Photografisch Atelier Kurkdjian, Soerabaja, Java), silver gelatin print mounted on dark grey card, 17.6 x 22.8 cm (image), c. 1913. Courtesy of Gael Newton. |
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#35: Landscape Bali - Weissenborn, silver gelatin print mounted on dark grey card, 17.6 x 22.8 cm (image), c. 1913. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Singapore. |
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#36: Goesti Bagoes met vrouw en Dochter (Gusti Bagus with wife and daughter), Thilly Weissenborn, silver gelatin print mounted on dark grey card, 22.8 x 17.6 cm (image), c. 1913. Courtesy of Gael Newton and the National Gallery of Singapore. |
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#37: Javanese Actor, Professor E.J.G (Edgar Johan Gerhard) Schermerhorn, half-tone plate LVIII in Photograms of the Year 1931. Private Collection. An expert on bromoil printing, Professor Schermerhorn was an avid amateur photographer, and founder of the first photography club in Indonesia—the Perhimpunan Amatir Foto-PAF (then Preanger Amateur Fotograafen Vereeniging). |
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