Bali Photography: 1865–1939
by Scott Merrillees

Many published works have been written about painting, sculpture, music, and dance in Bali, but surprisingly, little has been written about the history of photography on the fabled island. BALI Photography 1865—1939 provides the first survey of photography on Bali from the arrival of pioneering photographer Isidore van Kinsbergen as part of a government mission in December 1865, when Bali was almost completely unknown to the outside world, through to the first golden age of tourism on Bali in the 1930s that ended with the outbreak of World War Two.

Photo historian Scott Merrillees draws upon his extensive archive of early photographs, postcards, books, tourist guides, and travel brochures collected over more than thirty years to examine the development of photography on Bali in pre-independence Indonesia and the influences that shaped how Bali was photographed and how it was presented to the world.

Specifications

Hardcover
24 x 31 cm (portrait)
352 pages
English
2025
Afterhours Books
ISBN: XXXXXXXXX