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Arts & Fashion
Sunday April 1, 2007
An era on the cusp, captured
By NEIL KHOR
Classic black and white images dating back to the late 1800s offer a glimpse of a time when global culture was just emerging.
IT was a time when horizons were expanding and worlds meeting, at times, colliding. It was a time when cultures were opening up and ideas were being exchanged. It was a time ... when people primped and prettied up to pose for photographs.Perak抯 Sultan Idris retains touches of his Malay identity amidst the regalia of a British uniform: a crescent moon on his headdress for Islam, and a sampin(waist cloth) made of that very Malay weave, songket. |