Mrazek - framing exotica - are you sitting comfortably?

Gotta take risks to get the image you need:

There's a revealing warning reported in what is a really excellent book by Rudolph Mrazek (from 2002, called Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony (Princeton, Princeton University Press, on P. 108) where the author relates the story of a colonial era photographer of Indonesia who advises caution when necessarily using quite large 'doses' of flash powdor in the dark 'easily inflammable' native huts of the dyak people. In addition, he noted that insects, bacteria, sweat and "primitive people not accustomed to sitting still" are also difficulties for the colonial photographer. Awww.
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