BENNETT, Terry.

Old Japanese photographs. Collectors' data guide.

[London], Quaritch, 2006. 8vo (260 x 185 mm), pp. 308, with over 200 illustrations; blue cloth, pictorial dust-jacket. Designed as a useful and practical reference guide to the history of photography in Japan from its beginnings until 1912, this presents the results of important new research and a mass of data gathered from long-forgotten and largely inaccessible nineteenth-century sources. It should become an indispensable source of information for collectors and others interested in the subject, be they curators, historians, dealers or auctioneers. Significant features are the identification of over 4000 photographs by studio, the indexing of over 350 photographers and publishers of Japan-related stereoviews, reproductions of nineteenth-century periodical literature on Japanese photography and numerous studio advertisements of the period, as well as important material on early photographers drawn from Masonic archives. Terry Bennett, acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, has been collecting, researching and lecturing on nineteenth-century Japanese, Chinese, and Korean photography for twenty-five years. His books include Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives, Japan (1995, with Sir Hugh Cortazzi), Early Japanese Images (1996), Korea: Caught in Time (1997), Japan and the Illustrated London News 1853–1899 (2006), and Photography in Japan 1853–1912 (2006). He is currently working on a book on early Chinese photography. ISBN-10: 0 9550852 4 1; ISBN-13: 978 0 9550852 4 6.

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