The Photographs of Surabaya’s Past : A Representation of the Colonial Past in a Tourism Context
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This research article aimed to study the social and economic development of Surabaya that resulted in the rapid development of the Reformation tourism business as well as the reproduction and reinterpretation of photographs from the colonial period which was in the tourism period of Surabaya. The author analyzed the use of urban historical photographs in contemporary contexts by collecting information and photographs from the city museum and private stores which were rising under tourism context. According to the study, the historical photographs have been used as a mechanism to create new identities in order to meet the social and economic needs of Surabaya in decentralization period that the city try to promote tourism. As a result, the original meanings of the photographs have been abandoned and new descriptions have represented the background of Surabaya as a modernity of the past without touching the traumatic issues of colonial history, while private stores have reproduced the photographs as their products and presented the photographs of Surabaya in the past vibrantly.
Keyword: Surabaya, Photographs, Colonial, Tourism
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