Old Japan : old & rare photographs : catalogue 34, cemmemorating 150 years of Japanese photography.

Main entry:

Old Japan (Firm)

Title & Author:

Old Japan : old & rare photographs : catalogue 34, cemmemorating 150 years of Japanese photography.

Publication:

Purley, Surrey, U.K. : Old Japan, 2007.

Description:

86 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.

Series:

Catalogue ; 34

Notes:
Sales catalog. Reference: OJ34.
Includes index.
Cover title.
Price list inserted.

Summary:

Commemorating 150 years of Japanese photography, it includes many Bakumatsu stereoviews by Pierre Rossier, John Wilson and Shimooka Renjo as well as important albums by Uchida Kuichi and Felix Beato album of 25 prints. Also included are works by photographers such as Ueno Hikoma, Tomishige Rihei, Matsuzaki Shinji, Charles Weed, Wilhelm Burger, Tamoto Kenzo and many others including a previously unknown album of Matsuzaki Shinji's photographs of Japan's 1877 Industrial Exhibition; important albums by Uchida Kuichi, Kusakabe Kimbei, Ogawa Kazumasa, Esaki Reiji, Kanamaru Genzo, Enami Nobukuni (attrib.), Suzuki Shinichi I and Stillfried & Andersen; unique album of more than 300 portraits of famous Meiji-era Japanese from royalty to artists; rare album of Japan's participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympics; photographs of the 1871 Kobe typhoon, 1874 Nagasaki typhoon and 1891 earthquake; unique giant photographic Kusakabe display frame; important Nagasaki views by Ueno Hikoma; Charles Weed Nagasaki mammoth-plate view; 100 Japanese 1869 art photos by Wilhelm Burger; photographs of Julia Lowder (née Brown)- Japan's first female photographer; magnificent panoramas of Yokohama, Kobe and Hakodate by Kusakabe, Beato and Tamoto Kenzo; very rare views of 1871 Korea by Felix Beato; samurai portrait by Milton Miller; early attributed Charles Parker view of Kobe; group of Chinese views and portraits by William Saunders; rare and important stereoviews by Shimooka Renjo, John Wilson, Daniel Clark, Paul Champion, Wilhelm Burger, Pierre Rossier, Charles Weed, Peter Weil, E & H.T. Anthony, G. Riemer, Colonel Du Pin and Antoine Fauchery; rare stereos and cartes de visite of Japanese entertainers abroad including Tannaker Buhicrosan and Asi-Kitchi and wife; cartes de visite by William Willmann, Felix Beato and Tomishige Rihei et.

Subject:

Photography Japan History Catalogs.
Photography.
Japan History 1868- Pictorial works Catalogs.
Japan.

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
History.
Pictorial works.

Added entries:

Catalogue (Old Japan (Firm)) ; 34.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259017
Call No.: BIB 189868
Status: Available

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