I dove into the book expecting to simply thumb through each page, freshly taking in each photo without context. But what I found was a Ken Burns documentary on paper. This book is as much about the photographers as the photos themselves.
Photographs from key private collections and museum archives in Europe, America and Russia are collected in this volume, forming an anthology and giving insight into the cultural heritage of Korea.
In the early days it was much influenced by the work of certain European photographers who travelled there, established photographic studios, and set about recording every kind of detail of Japanese life.
A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that ...
Over the course of a decade, Richard Lloyd Parry has travelled to four continents to interview those caught up in the story and been given unprecedented access to Lucie's bitterly divided family to reveal the astonishing truth about Lucie ...
Taken between 1853 and 1912 by the most important Japanese and foreign photographers working in Japan, this is the first book to document the history of early photography in Japan a comprehensive and systematic way.
Morse , Anne Nishimura , " Souvenirs of ' Old Japan ' : Meiji - Era Photography and the Meisho Tradition , " in Anne Nishimura Morse , Sebastian Dobson , and Frederic A. Sharf , Art and Artifice : Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Era ...
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II—an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and ...
The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art Ellen P. Conant. distressingly simplistic terms . Japan Caught in Time , a recent book by Hugh Cortazzi and Terry Bennett , is representative of the prevailing approach to this ...
In conclusion, Felice Beato was so successful in his endeavor of producing tourist photo albums not merely on account ... Once upon a Time: Visions of Old Japan, Photographs of Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried and the Words ...