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Japan in Early Photographs: The Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel
Gregoire Mayor
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Description for Japan in Early Photographs: The Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel
Hardcover. Early photographic historical photographs from nineteenth-century Japan, presented for the first time. Num Pages: 308 pages, 280 colour. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; AJC; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 240. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Stuttgart, Germany
ISBN
9783897900271
SKU
V9783897900271
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Ref
99-1
About Gregoire Mayor
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 ... Read more
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