Japan in early photographs
the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel
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Contributions
- Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Contributor
Publication
2018 - Arnoldsche Art Publishers, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Language
English
Word Count
72,750 words, Guess
Page Count
291 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-103897900270
- ISBN-139783897900271
- Library of Congress Control Number2017464883
- OCLC Control Number1008364200
- Open LibraryOL44373199M
Classifications
- DDC779.074
- LCCDS809 .J38 2014
- LCCTR105 .J38 2014
Description
"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."-- Publisher's website.
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