《新加坡十九世纪照片集》全面记录了新加坡从19世纪40年代初到20世纪初的风貌。本书精选了120多张来自顶级机构和私人收藏的珍贵照片，并配有生动的解说，重现了一幅引人入胜的19世纪新加坡肖像。
这部引人入胜的城市之旅着重展现了新加坡及其周边地区的地形和建筑景观，带领读者重温昔日的新加坡，感受这座城市如今已面目全非的沧桑。书中通过富有洞察力的文字说明和以蛋白照片为主的摄影媒介——19世纪下半叶的主流——重现了这座活力四射的古老都市的活力。
此外，本书还记录了东南亚摄影事业的发展，揭示了一个分水岭。国际贸易的兴起和移民潮的推动，促使许多西方工作室摄影师前往东方寻求发展，与此同时，交通网络的改善也带动了旅游业的蓬勃发展。这些有利条件为新加坡商业摄影的蓬勃发展奠定了基础。本书通过展出的照片和文字中敏锐的分析，捕捉了这一独特的快速发展时刻。
《19 世纪的新加坡照片》展现了这座城市最引人注目的面貌，记录了摄影和新加坡——东南亚著名的殖民港口城市——发展的动态时刻。
19世纪的新加坡照片
Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840s to the 1900s. Paired with lively commentary, the more than 120 rare photographs from leading institutional and private collections recreate a compelling portrait of 19th-century Singapore.
Emphasising the topographical and architectural landscape of the city and its surrounding environs, this visually irresistible city tour transports the reader back to the Singapore of an earlier age, a city that has now changed beyond recognition. The vibrant old metropolis is brought back to life through insightful captions and mostly albumen prints, the dominant photographic medium of the second half of the 19th century.
Moreover, also documenting the growth of photography in Southeast Asia, this book reveals a watershed moment. The rise of international trade and the push for immigration led many Western studio photographers to seek their fortunes in the East, during a period that coincided with a rise in tourist travel, sparked by improvements to transportation networks. These propitious conditions set the stage for the intense production of commercial photographs of Singapore, and the book captures this unique moment of rapid development, both with the photographs shown and the perceptive analysis offered in the text.
Illustrating the city at its most striking, Singapore through 19th Century Photographs records a dynamic moment of development for both photography and of Singapore, the pre-eminent colonial port-city of Southeast Asia.
