The Lone Fisherman – Angling in the Morning Mist of Old Japan –
Close crop and sepia rendition of a ca.1900-10 Japanese postcard view.
/ source: Okinawa Soba
Tag: boat
Japanese Junk near Shore, ca.1912-1926.
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Boats and the Sea predominate as a popular theme with Japanese pictorial photographers, most of whom remain unknown.
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This image is one of several examples of a largely ignored facet of old Japanese photography – a genre called “Taisho art” or “Taisho pictorial photography”. The pictorialism movement in Japan reached its peak during the reign of emperor Taisho (1912-26), thus the name attached to the genre.
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Captain Jim Gardner operating his vessel Fortuna, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, CA, 1898 (Svenson Photo n. 266) / source: Islapedia
436 pound record Black Sea Bass being reeled up (the Bass flag flying) caught by Levin Graham Murphy on 80 line, Santa Catalina Island, July 16, 1905 / src: Islapedia.com
Gioacchino Altobelli :: The Tiber with Castel Sant’Angelo and St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 1868 / source: nuno korban
The Mörner sisters: Eva (1889-1981) and Louise (1879-1978) in a rowing boat, Sweden, early 1900′s. / via
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