Fuji-san reflected on lake Shôji
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Le lac Yamanaka et le mont Fuji
French banker Albert Kahn commissioned thirteen photographers and filmmakers (between 1909 and 1931) to fifty countries in an effort to understand and register practices and ways of life doomed to vanish. The resulting collection is known as Archives de la Planète and held at Musée Albert Kahn in Paris.
“Au coeur de la révolution industrielle de la fin du XIXe siècle et en plein essor du capitalisme, Albert Kahn, fils de marchands de bestiaux alsaciens crée sa propre banque et devient immensément riche. Profondément humaniste, il consacre sa vie à une oeuvre pacifiste protéiforme, ponctuée par la création de fondations, d’un jardin botanique, et d’une entreprise de couverture photographique et filmique d’un monde en pleine transformation: les Archives de la Planète.” | quotation src l’œil de la photographie
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
Koyo Okada :: Mount Fuji, Japan, circa 1920. Silver gelatin bromide print. / stc: Lumière des roses
un regard oblique 