Japan in early photographs : the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel, Greogoire Mayor / Akiyoshi Tani (eds.) ; foreword by Marc-Olivier Gonseth

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Japan in early photographs : the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel, Greogoire Mayor / Akiyoshi Tani (eds.) ; foreword by Marc-Olivier Gonseth

Title remainder

the Aimé Humbert Collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Neuchâtel

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

Instantiates

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

Publication

• Neuchatel, MEN, Musee d'ethnographie de Neuchatel, Stuttgart, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2018

Note

On the occasion of an exhibition held Museum of Ethnography, Neuchatel, June 19, 2014 - April 19, 2015

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-291)

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Contents

Foreword / Marc-Olivier Gonseth -- Lost in representation?: photographs in the Humbert Collection, a new awareness of Japan / Grégoire Mayor and Akiyoshi Tani -- Note to the reader -- "The most sophisticated process in Western art": the role of photography in Aimé Humbert's mission / Grégoire Mayor -- An investigation into the Aimé Humbert collection using photo-historical research / Akiyoshi Tani -- Spring and summer 1863 -- "He took with him an excellent photographer, Beato, from whom I would have the entire collection" -- Discovering a closed world -- The raise of the touristic gaze: the excursion to Kamakura -- The views of Yokohama -- Hidden meanings in the Humbert Collection of Edo photography / Akiyoshi Tani -- Seven reproductions in the collection -- The long quest for documentation -- Pictures by Felice Beato -- Wirgman's reproductions by Beato -- Pictures by Shimooka Renjō -- Images with uncertain paternity -- An enigma: the Amélie Colomb annotated pictures -- Some uses of photography as a source for the engravings in "Le Tour du monde" and "Le Japan illustré" -- Appendix A: The contents of a letter by Aimé Humbert compared with the album of Dirk de Graeff van Polsbroek -- Comparison charts with other albums -- Appendix B: Author's biographies -- Appendix C: Missing photographs according to Humbert's list of parcels from October 1863 -- Appendix D: Bibliography

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1008364200

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30 cm

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291 pages (some folded)

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9783897900271

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2017464883

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chiefly photographs

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(OCoLC)1008364200