Japan in Early Photographs
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1860s
1870s
1880s
19th Century
A01=Akiyoshi Tani
A01=Gregoire Mayor
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Aime Humbert
architecture
art
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Category1=Non-Fiction
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Category=AJC
Category=WQP
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culture
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early photography
Edo
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Felice Beato
feudal state
history
Japan
Japanese culture
landscapes
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Meji
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photographs
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society
softlaunch
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Product details
- ISBN 9783897900271
- Dimensions: 220 x 290mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Arnoldsche
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English, French
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Photographs taken in Japan between the late Edo period and early Meiji periods found their way overseas, and played a major role in forming Westerners' image of Japan. Among these collections, the pictures gathered by the Swiss diplomat Aime Humbert (1819-1900) in the 1860s were crucial in building lasting representations of the island nation: many of these, mainly collected in 1863/64 during a sojourn in Yokohama and Edo, were used as sources for the well-known and largely distributed engravings of his famous book Le Japon illustre, published in Paris in 1870. Belonging to the collection of the MEN, these beautiful and well-preserved photographs are published here for the first time. Presented by Japanese and Swiss scholars before the narrative backdrop of their acquisition and application by foreigners, they offer a striking view of a lost world.
Gregoire Mayor is adjunct curator at the MEN - Museum of Ethnography, Neuchatel (CH), and lecturer in visual anthropology at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Neuchatel. Tani Akyioshi was curator at the Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography, Tottori (JP) until 2000; researcher in the Conservation Laboratory at the Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo (JP); part-time lecturer in the Department of Photography, Nihon University College of Art (JP); and visiting scholar (2007-2008) at the Center for the History of European Expansion, Leiden University (NL).
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