Title
Dong Fang Studio Peranakan wedding photograph
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Penang
Material
Dimension
Image size: 29.0 x 24.0 cm,
Object size: 31.0 x 25.7 cm
Object size: 31.0 x 25.7 cm
Accession No.
2017-00749
Collection of
This photograph shows group posing with the bride and groom before a doorway. 門迎百福 is embroidered on the valence above. It was found with the studio mark ’東方攝影社.’Studios were already established across the Strait Settlements and the Dutch East Indies by the 1840s and became increasingly prevalent in the 1850s. During the 1920s, Chinese-owned studios dominated the studio photography trade in Southeast Asia. Ranging from formal studio portraits to albums of snapshots of everyday life and stately ancestral portraits, this large group of photographs reveals the many forms of photography available and gives insight into the various aspects of the lives of Peranakans.
