Portrait of Semi (1931, West Java)
A photograph need not be a rapid record of a moment in time. Here the camera slowly explores the women’s worn faces; Banning searches for their emotionally charged history. In the Second World War they were forced into prostitution as ‘comfort women’ in the military
camps of the Japanese occupier. Banning makes portraits in which the long, arduous processing of war experiences is manifest and the slipping by of ‘historical’ time contained.
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Portrait of Semi (1931, West Java)
A photograph need not be a rapid record of a moment in time. Here the camera slowly explores the women’s worn faces; Banning searches for their emotionally charged history. In the Second World War they were forced into prostitution as ‘comfort women’ in the military
camps of the Japanese occupier. Banning makes portraits in which the long, arduous processing of war experiences is manifest and the slipping by of ‘historical’ time contained.
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Aankoop uit het Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
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Purchased with the support of the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
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A photograph need not be a rap ...... f ‘historical’ time contained.
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Een foto hoeft geen snelle mom ......
‘historische’ tijd vervat is.
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NG-2011-20-4
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Rijksmuseum
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Portrait of Semi (1931, West Java)
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Portret van Semi (1931, West Java)
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2008
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2008
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beeld breedte 329 mm
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beeld hoogte 450 mm
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blad breedte 432 mm
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blad hoogte 587 mm
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height 450 mm
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height 587 mm
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width 329 mm
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width 432 mm
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Collectie: foto's
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