Gerda Theuns-De Boer

Isidore Van Kinsbergen (1821-1905): Fotopionier En Theatermaker in Nederlands-Indie

Sprache: Holländisch.

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ISBN 9067182699

EAN 9789067182690

Veröffentlicht Januar 2005

Verlag/Hersteller Brill

€ 39,50 inkl. MwSt.

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Beschreibung

Isidore van Kingsbergen (1821-1905) is sometimes described as the "sleeping beauty" of nineteenth-century photography, because his remarkable body of work has never been presented in its entirety. Yet he was a flamboyant artist who appeals to the imagination. For the first time, this publication gives a broad overview of the exceptional qualities of this photo pioneer. Van Kinsbergen became famous for the almost four hundred photographs he took of Java's antiquities at the behest of the Dutch colonial government and the Batavian Society. Detailed research has also brought to light a hitherto unknown part of his oeuvre, including the portraits he made at the courts of Yogyakarta, Surakarta, Bandung, Madura and Buleleng (Bali). In his studio, he used his experience as a theatre director to photograph people from various social backgrounds in an expressive manner. Due to his tireless efforts for new cultural projects, he has also been called as the "soul of colonial artistic life in Batavia."