Author: COURT, ALB. DE LA (TEXT) & CAS OORTHUYS (PHOTOGRAPHY),
Title: Een Staat in Wording. Foto-reportage over het Indonesië van heden. [Eerste, enige druk/first and only edition]
Description: Amsterdam-Antwerpen, Contact, Orig. coloured boards, dustjacket. Large title-label on front side. [127]pp. (incl. preface by Albert de la Court, of text and num. ills. and plates after original photographs by Cas Oorthuys, incl. captions to the illustrations in Dutch, in bold type. Photo account of the new republic of Indonesia, stull under Dutch colonial rule, up till the so-called Linggadjati agreement between the dutch and the Indonesian Republic, (25 March 1947). A much underrated photographic account by Cas Oorthuys. Good copy, WITH the seldomly present dustjacket. (some light signs of use to extremities of dustjacket, one tear skilfully restored with acidfree clearview tape).

Keywords: merdeka independence photobook photography cas oorthuys history linggadjati colonialism indonesia southeast asia