Title
Nikko Studio Peranakan wedding portrait
Year/Period
20th century
Region
Penang
Material
Dimension
Image size: 15.0 x 11.0 cm,
Object size: 28.8 x 21.0 cm
Object size: 28.8 x 21.0 cm
Accession No.
2017-00738
Collection of
This photograph shows a couple posing with their arms linked. It is stamped with ‘Nikko Studio KS Okaniwa 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.
