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Imagining Singapore
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Imagining Singapore is the first comprehensive study on the history of Pictorial photography in Singapore. Drawing from interviews, unpublished historical data and newly discovered photographs, the...
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15 February 2023

Imagining Singapore is the first comprehensive study on the history of Pictorial photography in Singapore. Drawing from interviews, unpublished historical data and newly discovered photographs, the book unveils a fascinating aspect of visual culture and its links to global Pictorialism. While Singapore experienced sweeping changes from independence and industrialisation, Pictorial photography took on multiple roles, acting as a symbol of democracy and modernity, staging national identity and providing a mechanism for Singaporeans to engage with ideas of the past, present and future. Such photographs shaped the way modern Singapore was imagined and represented for decades to come.
Price: $163.00
Pages: 186
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Photography in Asia
Publication Date:
15 February 2023
ISBN: 9789004513419
Format: Hardcover
Charmaine Toh’s account of Singapore pictorialism adds to a wider understanding of pictorialism outside of Europe and America, as well as showing how the movement evolved locally into the later twentieth century. [...] It is an important contribution to photographic literature and the study of Asian photography and is highly recommended.
Dr. Michael Prichard in: British photographic history blog, August 2023 https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/imagining
Dr. Michael Prichard in: British photographic history blog, August 2023 https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/imagining
Charmaine Toh, Ph.D. (2022), University of Melbourne, is Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she researches photography and contemporary art in Southeast Asia. Her most recent exhibition is Living Pictures (2022), the first major survey of photography in Southeast Asia.