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                      | Henri Cartier-Bresson Painting of the Dutch Governor being carried out of the Batavia Palace before celebrations for the newly recognized Republic of Indonesia, December 31 1949.
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 INTRODUCTION Jane Levy Reed
 IMAGING INDONESIA: Cultural Context and Historic Process Eric Crystal
 ADOLPH SCHAEFER AND BOROBUDUR H. J. Moeshart
 
 WOODBURY AND PAGE: Photographers of the Old Order
 John Bloom
 
 ISIDORE VAN KINSBERGEN: Photographer of Javanese Antiquities Pauline Lunsingh Scheurleer
  KASSIAN CEPHAS: A Pioneer of Indonesian Photography Jan Fontein
  KLEINGROTHE'S IMAGES OF TECHNOLOGY: The Reassuring View of the Indies Peter Kors
  ONNES KURKDJIAN: Viewmaker and Entrepreneur Hedi Hinzler
 
 C. B. NIEUWENHUIS' VIEWS OF SUMATRA
 Anneke Groeneveld
 
 H. M. NEEB: A Witness of the Aceh War
 Anneke Groeneveld
 
 THILLY WEISSENBORN: The Romance of the Indies
 Adrian Vickers
 
 TASSILO ADAM: The Photographer as Cultural Observer
 Kunang Helmi
 
 WALTER SPIES: The Artist as Photographer
 John Stowell
 
 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: Primacy of the Other over Fact
 John Bloom
 
 BEYOND PICTORIALISM: Photography in Modern Indonesia
 Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo
 
 Bibliography
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