Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections

ISBN-13: 9781138260733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Eleanor M. Hight

Opis

Expanding the canon of photographic history, Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections focuses on six New Englanders, whose travel and photograph collecting influenced the flowering of Japonism in late nineteenth-century Boston. The book also explores the history of Japanese photography and its main themes. The first history of its kind, this study illuminates the ways photographs, seeming conveyors of fact, imprint mental images and suppositions on their viewers.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Into the emergent Japan; New England travelers; The adventure of early photography in Japan; Along the go-kaido; The people of 'old Japan'; Capturing Japan; Selected bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Eleanor M. Hight is Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire. She was the co-editor with Gary D. Sampson of Colonialist Photography: Imag(in)ing Race and Place (2004).