gulik prof willem (3 risultati)

PB. Condizione: very good, wraps (softcover). sepia & color illustrations (illustratore). 160pp ISBN 1870076583.

Condizione: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good with minor creasing, wear at corners.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; Paperback.; 0.7 kg.; 25.5 x 22 cm.; 160 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows edge wear and scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear. "In December 1989 the Schilling collection of nineteenth-century Japanese photography was acquired by the Dutch bookstore Ukiyo-e Books in Leiden from Lempertz Auction house in Cologne, Germany. When I initially viewed these works with the owners, we were all struck by their exceptional quality, both in the pristine condition and in the diverse imagery. Almost immediately the idea of a publication was born. During my survey of the existing literature in Western language sources dealing with Japanese tourist photography of the late nineteenth century, I was convinced of the need to devote time on what appeared to be a relatively undocumented area. Earlier writers had concentrated only on well-known Western photographers, Felice Beato and Baron von Stillfried, who worked in Japan a number of years. Little attention was paid to the indigenous industry of tourist photography which flourished from c. 1880. It has only been in the last decade that serious interest in the field increased among Japanese scholars. In this book it has been my aim to integrate both Japanese and Western sources and to address some of the relevant questions which have been left unanswered in Western literature. My own training as an anthropologist explains the emphasis of the text on the socio-cultural meaning of the Schilling photographs, although their artistic and historic value no doubt warrants further in depth treatment by art historians and historians alike. Following a brief introduction concerning the provenance of the Schilling collection, I have attempted to outline the cultural and historical setting within which Japanese photography developed in the second half of the nineteenth century. Then I focus upon photography as a technique and as a profession; a description of the early days of photography in Japan serves as an introduction to various aspects of Japanese souvenir photography, the latter being particularly germane to the collection presented in this publication." excerpt from the foreword by Margarita Winkel Leiden, June 1991.