JAPAN IN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS

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 (18191900) in the 18 60s were crucial in building lasting representations of the island nation: many of these, mainly collected in 1863/64 during a sojou rn in Yokohama and Edo, were used as sources for the well-known and largely distributed engravings of his famous book Le Japon illus tré, publi...[Llegir més]