DOBSON e.a., Art & Artifice Japanese photographs of the Meiji Area, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2004. Softcover, 95 pages. Oblong, 20 x 25 cm. Rijk geïllustreerd. CONTENT: With the influx of Westerners to Japan during the Meiji period (1868-1912) came the rise of the Japanese photo industry. Originally created as souvenirs for foreign travellers, these pictures soon came to act as a pre-packaged guide: Before long, the tourist's first stop in Japan was the photographer's studio, where he ordered the handsomely-made photo album that would help set his itinerary. But more than this, these photographs reveal an astounding virtuosity, not only in composition but also in the technique of colour retouching, which brought these views of daily life, splendid gardens, bustling cityscapes, and theatrical performances to a new level of vividness. Blatantly artificial, these photographs also convey a true and resonant picture of Japanese society at the dawn of the modern age. Essays:
€ 17.50
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GREENBERG,H., Art Photography in Japan 1920-1940, New York 2003. Softcover 21 x 25 cm. 64 pages with 28 photo’s. CONTENT:
€ 22.50
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MOESHART, H.J., Arts en koopman in Japan Een selectie uit de fotoalbulms van de gebroeders Bauduin, Amsterdam 2001. Hardcover 17,5 x 25 cm. 250 pag. met 250 zwart-wit foto's. Old photo's from Japan. CONTENT: Weergave van 250 voor dit boek geselecteerde foto"s uit de collectie van Toon Bauduin geven een uniek beeld van het leven van Europeanen in Japan in het midden van de negentiende eeuw.
€ 32.50
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TAKASHI AKIRA ISHIGURO, Curious photo's from the Bakumatsu period, Tokyo 1996. Soft cover 16,5 x 22 cm. 157 pag. with 138 photo's some of which in colour.Text in Japanese.
€ 24.50
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COLOMBO, A. e.a, De Japanse fotografie van 1848 tot heden / Japanische Fotografie von Heute und ihre Ursprünge, Amsterdam 1980. Soft cover 20 x 20 cm. 187 pag. rijk geillustreerd met zwart-wit foto's. Tekst in het Nederlands en Duits. Text in Dutch and German. CONTENT:
€ 30.00
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OZAWA TAKESHI(ed.), Hozonban koshashin de miru Edo kara Tokyo (free translation: Edo before it became Tokyo in old photographs), Tokyo 2001. Soft cover 21 x 25,5 cm. 247 pag. with around 500 photo's from 1872 to 1890. Japanese text only. The photo's reproduced come from two old albums that have been recovered.
€ 47.50
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HOERNER, L., Eine Fotoreise durch das alte Japan, Dortmund 1985. Soft cover 12 x 17,5 cm[oblong]. 174 pages with 70 full page colour photographs. Text in German.
€ 9.50
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AKASHI SHOTEN, F.Beato Bakumatsu Japan[, Yokohama Yokohama Archives of History 2006. A set of 2 volumes. Part I: 135 pag. with 129 photo's and 61 photo's in text part. Part II : 199 pag. with 236 photo's and 52 photo's in text part.Text in Japanese; only captions below photo's in English .
€ 87.50
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HIGHT, E.M.(with contributions by Burnett, T. & Bennett, T.), FELICE BEATO Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan. Selections from the Tom Burnett Collection, New Hampshire 2011. Soft cover[oblong] 20 x 25 cm. 60 pages with 35 photographs.
€ 32.50
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LEIJERZAPF,I.Th., Herinneringen aan Japan 1850-1870. Foto's en fotoalbums in Nederlands bezit, Den Haag 1987. Softcover 20,5 x 26 cm. 234pag.waarvan 194 pag. met zwart-wit foto's. Kaft vertoont lichte gebruikssporen. Cover some wear, good copy. CONTENT:
€ 29.50
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Asahi Shimbun, JAPAN A pictorial interpretation // LE JAPON Une interpretation par l 'image, Tokyo 1934. Hard cover (without dust jacket)h 26,5 x 20 cm. A photo album with 272 pages with photographs. Text both in English and French. Cover some slight wear. Good copy. "The photographs are depicting daily life in Japan in beginning of the 1930's."
€ 19.50
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Brown portfolio(30 x 38 cm) with small 16 page booklet with information on the 12 reproduced photographs. Published in 1936 by Board of Tourist industry and Japanese Governement Railways. Portfolio some wear and tear. Photographs clean. Reasonable to good copy. ![]()
€ 10.00
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BENNETT, T. & CORTAZZI, H., JAPAN caught in time, New York 1995. Hard cover 22 x 26,5 cm 159 pag. with 130 hand-coloured photo's. CONTENT: A unique assemblage of unusual hand-tinted photographs of early Japan, selected from a collection assembled by Russian Botanist Alexander Vasilyevich Grigoryev, whose travels took him to Japan in 1879. Never before published as a collection, they were taken for the most part in the 1870s and preserved in the archives of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg. Many are unique and outstanding examples of early photography in Japan. As opposed to artist's sketchbooks or popular prints of the day, these 130 colour photographs convey in a uniquely realistic way a vision of life in Japan in the last half of the 19th century. Main chapters:
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€ 62.50
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WAGNER, U., JAPAN imagined. The Ida Trotzig Collection of Photography from the Meiji Era in Japan, stockholm 2009(publisher: Museum of Ethnography // ISBN: 978-91-85344-57-4). Hard cover 23 x 27 cm.[oblong]. 157 pages with around 110 photographs. "Japan Imagined - the faraway country that enchanted the young Ida Trotzig and many of her contemporaries. Beautiful landscapes, quaint houses, lovely geishas, warlike samurais, in short all things different and exotic fed the imagination.Did this image of Japan correspond to the real country, or was it a dreamland? Ida Trotzig had the opportunity to see for herself when she came to Kobe in 1888. During her 30 years in Japan she got to know its culture, and from 1898 she started her work with, and collection for, the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm.The photos in the collection presented here were taken by Japanese photographers in the decades around 1900. They reflect some aspects of Japanese life at that period - but not the country that then was in the process of rapid modernization and industrialization."
€ 32.50
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MAYOR, G. & TANI, A.(eds), JAPAN in early photographs. The Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel 2018. Hard cover 29,5 x 22,5 cm. 291 pages with 219 photographs and illustrations. "Photographs taken in Japan between the late Edo and early Meiji periods that found their way overseas played a major role in forming Westerners’ image of Japan. Among these collections, the pictures gathered by the Swiss diplomat Aimé 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 illustré, 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 on a lost world."
€ 57.50
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WORSWICK,C., Japan photographs 1854-1905, Published in Amsterdam(no date) after New York 1997. Hardcover 24 x 29 cm. (oblong) 151 pag. met ca 100 foto's waarvan 6 in kleur. about 100 photographs of which 6 in colour. CONTENT: Catalogue for an exhibition held at Japan House Gallery, December 20, 1979-February 10, 1980, with an historical text by Clark Worswick. The photographers included a number of amateurs as well as the Beato brothers; H. Andersen (who bought the Beato studio and stock in 1877), e.o. ; the Japan Photographic Association; and a number of commercial Japanese photographers and studios. Main chapters:
Index of Commercial and Amateur photographers Bibliography
€ 27.50
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SCHWARZ, C. & SIEVERNICH, G., Japanische Photographie 1860-1929, Berlijn 1993. Hard cover 21 x 27,5 cm. 103 pag. with 70 photo's. Cover corners some slight bending. CONTENT: Main chapters:
Biographien Katalog
€ 29.50
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SCHWARZENBERG, C., Japanische Souvenir-Photoalben aus dem späten 19. Jahrhundert, Berlijn 1998. Soft cover 21 x 29,5 cm. 16 pag. with 24 photo's of which 5 in colour. Text in German. Overprint[Sonderabzug] from an article from: "Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst, Nr. 25, Oktober 1998. The same article has been published in French translation as "Albums de photos 'Souvenirs' de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle" in Bulletin de l'Association Franco-japonaise, No. 53(juillet 1996) pag. 18-32.
€ 29.50
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Sierra de la Calle, Blas, JAPON: FOTOGRAFIA S. XIX. (Japan: 19th Century Photographs), Spain 2001. Softcover 24 x 17 cm 722 pag. with ca. 670 colour photographic reproductions of 19th century Japanese photographs and around 100 prints with related images to the photographs. Around 770 images in total. Text in Spanish. CONTENT: The photographes have been ordered according to themes below:
Appendices
€ 39.50
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SUCHOMEL, F. & SUCHEMELOVA, M. , Journal of a Voyage. The Erwin Dubsky Collection: Photographs from Japan in the 1870’s, Brno 2006. Hard cover 23,5 x 29 cm. [oblong] 245 pag. with 42 ill. and 155 photographs. "In 1876, Erwin Dubský brought back from his voyage around the world sixty trunks filled with beautiful artifacts and hundreds of photographs. The exhibition will offer the very best of his collections, which will be presented to the public for the very first time. Visitors can appreciate lovely black-and-white albumen prints depicting Japanese and Chinese ports and prominent temples and shrines."
€ 59.50
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