{"product_id":"living-pictures-ngs","title":"Living Pictures (NGS)","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis richly illustrated catalogue examines the power of photography and its mobilisation within systems of knowledge and representation across Southeast Asian societies. Rather than just thinking about what photographs show,\u003cem\u003e Living Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e explores what photographs do, acknowledging that photographs have lives—they move and they act—and in the process, they affect the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking catalogue accompanies the world’s first-ever survey of the medium’s histories across Southeast Asia, from its earliest beginnings in the 19th century until its diverse contemporary manifestations. It traces the creation, circulation and consumption of photography and how these processes have shaped the visual regimes of the region, through essays by the \u003cem\u003eLiving Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e curators, interviews with artists and photographers featured in the exhibition, comprehensive plates including never-before-published images, and new research by leading international scholars focusing on the interdisciplinary intersections between photography and art history, archaeology and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharmaine Toh is a Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"National Gallery Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44151653499177,"sku":"9789811840449-NGS","price":50.46,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/products\/9789811840449-LivingPicturesFrontCover.jpg?v=1671530607","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.sg\/products\/living-pictures-ngs","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}