Description
| Product ID: | 9783897900271 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | DE |
| Title: | Japan in Early Photographs |
| Subtitle: | The Aime Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchatel |
| Authors: | Author: Akiyoshi Tani, Gregoire Mayor, Akiyoshi Tani, Gregoire Mayor |
| Page Count: | 292 |
| Subjects: | Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Photographs: collections, Places in old photographs, Photographs: collections, Places in old photographs, Japan, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Aime Humbert Collection of early photographs from Japan, used as source to illustrate his travel reports, played a major role in building lasting representations of Japan. 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 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 of a lost world. |
| Imprint Name: | Arnoldsche |
| Publisher Name: | Arnoldsche |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-09-27 |
