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History and Imagination

Modern Photography from Singapore

Charmaine Toh editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:National Gallery Singapore

Published:7th Oct '21

£21.00

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History and Imagination presents the works of four Singapore photographers: Tan Lip Seng, Lee Lim, Lim Kwong Ling and Lee Sow Lim. These amateur photographers were active members of camera clubs in the 1950s and 1960s, a period of rapid political and urban change in newly independent Singapore. Navigating the desire to document the emerging nation against the conventions of pictorial photography, scholarly essays and full-colour plates trace how their images parallel a newfound search for independence from British rule and the anxieties of modernity.

ISBN: 9789811806315

Dimensions: 191mm x 279mm x 14mm

Weight: 612g

116 pages