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

• 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. 

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Fotokonst  (sao)

Fotografisamlingar  (sao)

Fotografi  -- historia (sao)

Photography  -- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Travel.  (fast)

Photography.  (fast)

Photograph collections  (LCSH)

Photography, Artistic  (LCSH)

Japan  -- Pictorial works. (LCSH)

Japan  -- Description and travel -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Japan.  (fast)

Japan 

1800-1899  (fast)

Genre

Utställningskataloger  (saogf)

Exhibition catalogs.  (fast)

Catalogs.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Pictorial works.  (fast)

Personnamn

Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Photographic collections -- Exibitions.

Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Travel -- Japan -- Exhibitions.

Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 -- Art collections.

Institutionsnamn

Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) -- Catalogs.

Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)

Klassifikation

DS809 (LCC)

779.074J35 (DDC)

Inz (kssb/8 (machine generated))