A career of Japan : : Baron Raimund von Stillfried and early Yokohama photography / / by Luke Gartlan.

A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most important foreign-born photographer of the Meiji era and one of the first globally active photographers of his generation. He played a key r...

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Superior document:Photography in Asia ; Volume 1
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Photography in Asia ; Volume 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: With Argus Eyes
  • From Dreams to Specters
  • Changing Views
  • “The Mikado Photograph Affair”
  • Picturing Hokkaido
  • Sex and Violence in the Teahouse
  • A Merchant of Images
  • Constructing and Contesting Japan
  • The Trials of Stillfried
  • The Prodigal Subject
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Glossary of Japanese Characters
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.