Japan in early photographs : the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel

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Label

Japan in early photographs : the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel

Title remainder

the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel

Statement of responsibility

Greogoire Mayor / Akiyoshi Tani (eds.) ; foreword by Marc-Olivier Gonseth

Contributor

• Tani, Akiyoshi,
• Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland),
• Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland),
• Gonseth, Marc-Olivier,
• Gonseth, Marc-Olivier,
• Mayor, Grégoire,
• Mayor, Grégoire,
• Tani, Akiyoshi,

Editor

• Mayor, Grégoire,
• Mayor, Grégoire,
• Tani, Akiyoshi,
• Tani, Akiyoshi,

Host institution

• Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland),
• Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland),

Subject

• Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Travel -- Japan -- Exhibitions
• Catalogs
• Catalogs
• Catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Art collections
• Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Photographic collections -- Exibitions
• Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Photographic collections -- Exibitions
• 1800-1899
• Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Travel -- Japan -- Exhibitions
• Illustrated works
• Illustrated works
• Japan
• Japan -- Description and travel -- Exhibitions
• Japan -- Description and travel -- Exhibitions
• Japan -- Pictorial works
• Japan -- Pictorial works
• Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) -- Catalogs
• Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) -- Catalogs
• Photography
• Photography -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
• Photography -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
• Photography -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
• Pictorial works

Genre

• Catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exibitions
• Exhibitions
• History
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works

Language

eng

Summary

"Photographs taken in Japan between the late Edo and early Meiji periods that found their way overseas played a major role in forming Westerners' image of Japan. Among these collections, the pictures gathered by the Swiss diplomat Aimé Humbert (1819-1900) in the 1860s were crucial in building lasting representations of the island nation: many of these, mainly collected in 1863/64 during a sojourn in Yokohama and Edo, were used as sources for the well-known and largely distributed engravings of his famous book Le Japon illustré, published in Paris in 1870. Belonging to the collection of the MEN, these beautiful and well-preserved photographs are published here for the first time. Presented by Japanese and Swiss scholars before the narrative backdrop of their acquisition and application by foreigners, they offer a striking view on a lost world."-- Publisher's website

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Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

photographs

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs