Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Exhibition gives light to works of unknown colonial photographer

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Exhibition gives light to works of unknown colonial photographer

Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The old black-and-white pictures of life in the Dutch Indies on show at Erasmus Huis gallery were once education materials for school children in the Netherlands.

The photographs, called schoolplaten or school plates, gave pupils in the Netherlands a glimpse of life as it was far away in Borneo, Papua, Sumatra, Java and other areas across the vast Dutch territory.

The photos today are part of an exhibition called "Through the Eyes of the Past", and they give visitor's a glimpse of what happened long ago in this country.

Curator Firman Ichsan categorized 150 pictures into several groups including transportation; education; industry, agriculture and mining; towns and settlements; and people.

Most of the works, however, include people. Some of them were obviously posing for the shot, but some photographs are candid, like the portrait of men playing cards.

In the gallery on Jl. Rasuna Said in South Jakarta, Firman arranged the pictures so viewers can comfortably see the photos according to theme.

These pictures do not give credit to the photographer -- only the name of the publisher of the pictures, Kleynenberg in Haarlem, and the year of publication, 1913, is included.

Firman said it is believed all the pictures published by Kleynenberg in 1913 were the works of Jean Demmeni, the son of a royal Dutch soldier of French descent.

In his explanatory notes around the exhibition, Firman says it was a Dutch antiquities collector, Leo Haks, who first investigated in 1984 the photographer who shot the pictures he bought from an antique bookshop.

Some of the shots are known among collectors. His search found an answer at Museum of Cultural Anthropology in Leiden, the Netherlands.

"Jean Demmeni was relatively unknown compared to other colonial time photographers like Woodburry and Page, for example," Firman said.

"His works were relatively more renowned than his name."

Later Haks, with Paul Sach, wrote about Demmeni in a book titled Indonesia Images from the Past published in 1987 by Times.

Haks's collection changed hands and now it belongs to avid collector Hauw Ming, who calls his collection of art works, old watches and photographs the "Kartini Collection".

After a discussion with Erasmus Huis's director, Hauw Ming agreed to put the collection on loan for public viewing.

Through the Eyes of the Past:

Jan. 18 to Feb. 22, 2008

Erasmus Huis
Jl. Rasuna Said Kav. S-3
South Jakarta