History and Imagination: Modern Photography from Singapore presents the works of four Singapore photographers: Tan Lip Seng, Lee Lim, Lim Kwong Ling, and Lee Sow Lim. These amateur photographers were active members of camera clubs in the 1950s and 1960s, a period of rapid political and urban change in newly independent Singapore. Navigating the desire to document the emerging nation against the conventions of pictorial photography, scholarly essays, and full-colour plates trace how their images parallel a newfound search for independence from British rule and the anxieties of modernity.