1950s Singapore
1960s Singapore
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art history
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documentary photography
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historical photography
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photo essays
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Product details
- ISBN 9789811806315
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 190 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 07 Oct 2021
- Publisher: National Gallery Singapore
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
