images that haunt us
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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Yuriko Takagi :: From “Confused Gravitation”, 1991-2000 / src: www.enkil.org
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Yuriko Takagi :: From “Confused Gravitation”, 1991-2000 / src: www.enkil.org
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A Tranquil Scene on Lake Ashi, seen from the shores of Hakone Village as Mt. Fuji rises beyond the distant headlands.’ A beautiful albumen photo from over 120 years ago.
From the lens on the camera to the lip of Fuji’s crater is 32 Kilometers = 20 miles. / src: Okinawa Soba
Sailing into Fuji, 1920′s.
“Real-photo gelatin silver print. Postcard format. 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”. […] As
this is an “Art Photo”, there was probably some manual manipulation of
the image. I personally think it is a combination of at least two photos.” Quoted from
Okinawa Soba (Rob) on Flickr.
/ source and more information: Flickr
hi-res link, here
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