Daido Moriyama :: Letter to Myself, 1988
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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
Rock and Sail Boat | 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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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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un regard oblique 