Editor Sebagai Sutradara, Analisis Semiotika Pada "Buku Tanah Air Kita"

Abstract

Editor in the publishing world has function to keep the consistency of story line and point of view. “Tanah Air Kita†is a book published by N.V. W. van Hoeve-Bandung  that contain the work of local and foreign photographers since Dutch colonial rule until Indonesia’s independence.   
The research aims to discuss how the role of editor in producing a  book that fits his vision about how Indonesia is supposed to be in a photo and how observers interpret.Using semiotic analysis based on the model spectator – operator–spectrum. Analysis is done by categorizing photo illustration in 4 parts, which are :nature beauty,technology-natural resources, how people work, political change, then cross-checked upon their stadium- punctum.  
Selected photos shows the vision of N.A. Douwes Dekker about his expectation towards Indonesia, as the new nation that wants to be reckoned in the world, according to the presences.