Tag: seascape

French and English Fleets, 1858

Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884) :: The French and English Fleets, Cherbourg, August 1858. Albumen silver print from glass negative. Bequest of Maurice Sendak, 2013. | src The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Le Gray :: Flotte Franco-Anglais en Rade de Cherbourg, 1858. Albumen print from wet plate negative. | src VW

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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src: Okinawa Soba on Flickr