Estetika Kassian Cephas, Fotografer Jawa yang Mendunia

Abstract

Looking at a photo means a provement to past time’s existence. A
photo is similar with an arrow which is ready to be launched from the past
time to present’s era. Hence, through a photo we do have an experience a
cronological time. Whereas a photo becomes a mediation to experience the
past time and to experience a cronological flow which is relate the past and
the present time. With that understanding I want to talk about the past time’s
photographer. He is a Javanese who is able to bring and to introduce the
modernity that time to the citizen through himself and his works in photo
forms. He is Kassian Cephas, the first Javanese who knew a camera. Thus, he
is known as the father of Indonesia’s photography.