Reading Portrait Photography

As the title suggests, this book is an attempt to provide an overview of how to read photographic works, especially portrait photography. The meaning of reading in this book is an attempt to understand the interaction between the photographer, technical aspects, identity, and socio-cultural aspects that surround the process of creating a portrait photo, thus making it meaningful. The assumption developed here is that these aspects are interrelated, affecting the final form of a work.
Kassian Cephas and Indra Leonardi were chosen as the two photography figures whose works are studied in this book because they have very different backgrounds. It is intended to provide readers with information-rich descriptions while allowing them to make comparisons on their own.
From an academic perspective, this book is also aimed at photography students in Art Review courses and cultural arts students in general, so the selection of these two figures can increase the hope of achieving the competency goals to be achieved.
The reading and exploration of things found in the "jungle" of Indonesian photography should continue. This feels indispensable because the wheel of time keeps turning, developments keep happening, and change is inevitable. Time brings the new and leaves the old behind. We are the ones who are obliged to capture the traces that are imprinted in the rotation of time. The development of photography in Indonesia, with its richness and distinctiveness of color, seems to need to be continuously explored, recorded, and recorded in order to become immortal.