Title
Wah Kioh framed portrait of a lady with downcast eyes
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Indonesia
Material
Dimension
Image size: 9.3 x 6.7 cm,
Frame size: 20.0 x 14.5 cm
Frame size: 20.0 x 14.5 cm
Accession No.
2017-00684
Collection of
This portrait of a lady with downcast eyes is mounted on a board marked with the shop mark ‘像照僑華內廖Wah Kioh Photographer Tandjong Pinang.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.
