JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Jakarta is changing rapidly. Not just physically, but also changes in other sectors.
Figuring out how Jakarta has grown, can be done by comparing the conditions in past years. The condition can be clearly illustrated with photos.
“If through the painting was too subjective, I must describe through photos,” said Scott Andrew Merrillees during the discussion of his book in Jakarta, Saturday (12/03/2016).
He said, the image can act as a time machine that makes someone go back to the past, precisely at a time or place where the photo was taken.
Moreover, many old buildings in Jakarta that was destroyed and replaced with new ones.
photos into the right media to describe the history of an area or building. Through photos, residents of Jakarta also get an idea of how the development of the capital city of Indonesia.
“To photograph a building or landmark, I have to know exactly where the building or the way it is. Not just in Jalan Cikini Raya, for example. But, should know the west end, east, and the southern end, “said Scott.
History by Scott very important for sustainability. Perhaps many assumptions Jakarta prior to 1945 have memories of dark unnecessary preserved or remembered.
However, unlike the case for the new generation who just want to know how the development of Jakarta since then and came into being.
To that end, he collected a number of photos and postcards and then publish a book Batavia in Nineteenth Century Photographs, Greetings from Jakarta: Postcards of a Capital, 1900-1950 and Jakarta: Portraits of a Capital, 1950-1980.
the third book was published to reconstruct the history of Jakarta by using the concept of place or conception of the place.
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