19th-century photography
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contemporary analogies
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Japan
photographic archives
Western perspective
Yokohama
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- ISBN 9781805980308
- Dimensions: 233 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2026
- Publisher: GOST Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the attic of a family home in Italy, Giada Ripa
discovered an album of photographs of the city of
Yokohama taken by Italian photographer Felice Beato,
the first visual narrator of 1860s Japanese society.
Ripa later discovered, while researching Beato and his
images, a body of work created by her own relative,
Mathilde Ruinart, a 19th-century artist, who traveled to
Japan in 1867 with her diplomat husband providing a
vivid visual description of it.
In The Yokohama Project, Ripa has followed Beato
and Ruinhart’s respective footsteps, and through a
Western prism that bridges their 19th-century gaze
and her own, attempts to identify local contemporary
analogies and convey the transformations of society
and landscape in Yokohama and its surroundings.
