W H AT ’ S O N : M A R C H – M A Y 2 0 1 4 A SELECTIVE ROUNDUP OF EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS – TAASA Review March 2014

Compiled by Tina Burge ACT Garden of the East: photography in Indonesia 1850s–1940s 21 February – 22 June 2014 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Over 200 works including many new acquisitions will be on view in this first art museum survey of the development of photographic art in Southeast Asia.

The exhibition includes a wide array of formats of 19th and early 20th century photography: from miniature cartes de visite to panoramas and massive presentation albums of commercial views; handmade family albums and illustrated books.

Garden of the East includes work by the pioneer, mostly European, photographers in Indonesia such as Walter Woodbury and Isidore van Kinsbergen...