
Woman Diving from Diving Board on Lake, Spring Time written on photograph. | source foundphotographs.com
images that haunt us



Men’s feet and woman with bathing cap, taken from boat. Vintage snapshot (In frame reads: San Antonio, Texas, Studer, Photo) / via
lasmicrofisuras / original source: foundphotographs.com

Horse and carriage on top of cliffs, Santa Cruz, California. Source: California Digital Archive. / via

A flock of sails flying on water. 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./ src:
Okinawa Soba on Flickr

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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