BB019 Title: MALAYSIA A Pictorial History 1400-2004 Author: Wendy Khadijah Moore Foreword: Over 1200 rarely seen, beautiful and fascinating images vividly bring Malaysias history to life-including maps, prints and engravings before the age of photography; rare hand-coloured glass slides; early photographs of picturesque views and evocative portraits captured in the 1980s by early professional studios; official photographs of royal festivitives; amature attempts to record people, places and wildlife; the shots of press photographs chronicling everyday life as well as major events such as World War II, the Emergency and Independence; and the late 20th century photographers who have documented the countrys journey from a largely agrarian community to an industrialized nation. The two year search for the vivid and unusual resulted in a number of unexpected discoveries which are reproduced alongside classic images without which no visual history of Malaysia would be complete.

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