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FUJITA. Kenji Morita

Kenji Morita. Artist: Fujita (Japanese, active 1880s). Dimensions: Image: 9.6 x 6.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
Case: 1.3 x 11.1 x 8.3 cm (1/2 x 4 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.). Date: 1886.
When Japan opened its ports to the West in the 1850s, photography--called shashin, literally, a copy of truth--soon became widely available. High-end professional salons and open-air studios operated by itinerant practitioners offered portraits at every price range. While the popularity of ambrotypes, a positive photograph on glass, was short-lived in the United States, Japanese ambrotypes were in demand from the early 1870s until the end of the nineteenth century. These two ambrotype portraits depict a dreamy-eyed, fourteen-year-old student and a barefoot geisha with her attendant. Housed in poetry-inscribed kiri-wood boxes, they provide an intimate and rare glimpse of how modern Japanese society represented itself.

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FUJITA (active 1880s)

Titre:

Kenji Morita

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Kenji Morita. Artist: Fujita (Japanese, active 1880s). Dimensions: Image: 9.6 x 6.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.) Case: 1.3 x 11.1 x 8.3 cm (1/2 x 4 3/8 x 3 1/4 in.). Date: 1886. When Japan opened its ports to the West in the 1850s, photography--called shashin, literally, a copy of truth--soon became widely available. High-end professional salons and open-air studios operated by itinerant practitioners offered portraits at every price range. While the popularity of ambrotypes, a positive photograph on glass, was short-lived in the United States, Japanese ambrotypes were in demand from the early 1870s until the end of the nineteenth century. These two ambrotype portraits depict a dreamy-eyed, fourteen-year-old student and a barefoot geisha with her attendant. Housed in poetry-inscribed kiri-wood boxes, they provide an intimate and rare glimpse of how modern Japanese society represented itself.

Technique/matériel:

Ambrotype

Musée:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Crédit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Autorisations:

Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:

3149 x 4200 px | 37.8 MB

Taille d'impression:

26.7 x 35.6 cm | 10.5 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)

Mots clés:

ASIA • FUJITA • JAPON • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA