Title
Keechun Studio Peranakan family portrait
Year/Period
1921
Region
Penang
Material
Dimension
Image size: 20.0 x 15.0 cm,
Frame size: 34.0 x 28.0 cm
Frame size: 34.0 x 28.0 cm
Accession No.
2017-00761
Collection of
This photograph shows a family of three. It is accompanied by a description, ‘Mr and Mrs Kim Eng Hoon & Son. 22nd February 1921,’ and stamped with the studio mark ‘Keechun Studio Penang.’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.
