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Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey, published by NUS Press (Singapore) in 2016, is ready to be shipped.
NUS Press has generously offered this new book at the discounted price of S$40. This offer will be available until the actual launch at Objectifs, Singapore, on 13 October, 7pm.
This offer is also available online at http://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/photography-in-southeast-asia-a-survey. You can choose to have it mailed to your address or you can self-collect at NUS Press.
This is a rare opportunity to get the book at a discounted price. The offer will end after the official launch. The usual price is S$48.
Don't miss this special opportunity to enjoy the discount!
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Please join us for the launch of Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey on 13 October 2016, 7pm at Objectifs.
For the launch, Zhuang Wubin, author of the book, will moderate a short exchange with famed street photographer, Chia Aik Beng, to better understand how the digitisation of photography has shaped his work. Aik Beng will also share his observations on how this development has impacted Singapore photography. This session will end with an open-floor Q&A between the speakers and the audience.
Limited copies of the book will also be available for sale at the discounted price of S$40. Please indicate your attendance at the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/537479086447433/.
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Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. The narrative begins in the colonial era, at the point when the transfer of photographic technology occurred between visiting practitioners and local photographers. With individual chapters dedicated to the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam, the bulk of the book spans the post-WWII era to the contemporary, focusing on practitioners who operate with agency and autonomy. The relationship between art and photography, which has been defined very narrowly over the decades, is re-examined in the process. Photography also offers an entry point into the cultural and social practices of the region, and a prism into the personal desires and creative decisions of its practitioners.
an innovative approach to a medium that is often not considered an 'art form' and is therefore overlooked in surveys of Southeast Asian art history this original study also offers an insight into the role of images and visuality in shaping Southeast Asian society, culture and politics.
Nora Taylor, Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"An incredible vista of the artistic output and intellectual debates in this culturally rich and diverse but oft-overlooked region, commendable for the writer's tireless efforts in retracing historic forces and themes and investigating the politics of the image creation shaping Southeast Asian photographers today."
Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo, Photo Historian
"Informed by years of research in Southeast Asian photography, Wubins extensive survey, covering generations of practitioners across 10 countries from Laos to Singapore, extends beyond to offer a glimpse into the regions colonial and post-colonial histories, politics and social landscapes ... (he) also enters rare territory in todays photography and art writing criticism, and notably, advocacy and sympathy for the straightness of more traditionally motivated and inclined practitioners of photography outliers, if you will, to whom contemporary art establishment have more often than not, been antagonistic towards."
Kevin Lee, Invisible Photographer Asia
Zhuang Wubin is a writer, curator and artist. As a writer, Zhuang focuses on the photographic practices in Southeast Asia. A 2010 recipient of the research grant from Prince Claus Fund (Amsterdam), Zhuang is an editorial board member of Trans-Asia Photography Review, a journal published by the Hampshire College and the University of Michigan Scholarly Publication Office.
Publisher: NUS Press, Singapore
Publication Year: 2016
524 pages, 235mm x 187mm
ISBN: 978-981-4722-12-4 Casebound
212 photographs
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There will also be a launch event in Kuala Lumpur on 3 November 2016. Please stay tuned or follow the author's Facebook page for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/zwubin/
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Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey, published by NUS Press (Singapore) in 2016, is ready to be shipped.
NUS Press has generously offered this new book at the discounted price of S$40. This offer will be available until the actual launch at Objectifs, Singapore, on 13 October, 7pm.
This offer is also available online at http://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/photography-in-southeast-asia-a-survey. You can choose to have it mailed to your address or you can self-collect at NUS Press.
This is a rare opportunity to get the book at a discounted price. The offer will end after the official launch. The usual price is S$48.
Don't miss this special opportunity to enjoy the discount!
*
Please join us for the launch of Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey on 13 October 2016, 7pm at Objectifs.
For the launch, Zhuang Wubin, author of the book, will moderate a short exchange with famed street photographer, Chia Aik Beng, to better understand how the digitisation of photography has shaped his work. Aik Beng will also share his observations on how this development has impacted Singapore photography. This session will end with an open-floor Q&A between the speakers and the audience.
Limited copies of the book will also be available for sale at the discounted price of S$40. Please indicate your attendance at the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/537479086447433/.
*
Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of photographic practices in Southeast Asia. The narrative begins in the colonial era, at the point when the transfer of photographic technology occurred between visiting practitioners and local photographers. With individual chapters dedicated to the countries of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam, the bulk of the book spans the post-WWII era to the contemporary, focusing on practitioners who operate with agency and autonomy. The relationship between art and photography, which has been defined very narrowly over the decades, is re-examined in the process. Photography also offers an entry point into the cultural and social practices of the region, and a prism into the personal desires and creative decisions of its practitioners.
an innovative approach to a medium that is often not considered an 'art form' and is therefore overlooked in surveys of Southeast Asian art history this original study also offers an insight into the role of images and visuality in shaping Southeast Asian society, culture and politics.
Nora Taylor, Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"An incredible vista of the artistic output and intellectual debates in this culturally rich and diverse but oft-overlooked region, commendable for the writer's tireless efforts in retracing historic forces and themes and investigating the politics of the image creation shaping Southeast Asian photographers today."
Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo, Photo Historian
"Informed by years of research in Southeast Asian photography, Wubins extensive survey, covering generations of practitioners across 10 countries from Laos to Singapore, extends beyond to offer a glimpse into the regions colonial and post-colonial histories, politics and social landscapes ... (he) also enters rare territory in todays photography and art writing criticism, and notably, advocacy and sympathy for the straightness of more traditionally motivated and inclined practitioners of photography outliers, if you will, to whom contemporary art establishment have more often than not, been antagonistic towards."
Kevin Lee, Invisible Photographer Asia
Zhuang Wubin is a writer, curator and artist. As a writer, Zhuang focuses on the photographic practices in Southeast Asia. A 2010 recipient of the research grant from Prince Claus Fund (Amsterdam), Zhuang is an editorial board member of Trans-Asia Photography Review, a journal published by the Hampshire College and the University of Michigan Scholarly Publication Office.
Publisher: NUS Press, Singapore
Publication Year: 2016
524 pages, 235mm x 187mm
ISBN: 978-981-4722-12-4 Casebound
212 photographs
*
There will also be a launch event in Kuala Lumpur on 3 November 2016. Please stay tuned or follow the author's Facebook page for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/zwubin/
