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BEATO, FELIX (1833/34-1907) Impressive album containing 66 photographs of Japanese figures, nearly all of which are
BEATO, FELIX (1833/34-1907)
Impressive album containing 66 photographs of Japanese figures, nearly all of which are beautifully hand-colored. With occupational portraits, genre scenes, studio tableaux, and dramatic outdoor views (including the iconic "Execution") as well as a handful of military scenes (which are not tinted) relating to the Korean conflict. Albumen prints, 9 1/4x10 3/4 inches (23.5x27.3 cm.), nearly all with a letterpress caption on the facing leaf; the Korean scenes with a handwritten caption below each photograph; the Aino print is 4 1/2x5 1/2 inches (11.4x13.9 cm.). Royal folio, 1/4 morocco, minor edgewear. Circa 1871
Impressive album containing 66 photographs of Japanese figures, nearly all of which are beautifully hand-colored. With occupational portraits, genre scenes, studio tableaux, and dramatic outdoor views (including the iconic "Execution") as well as a handful of military scenes (which are not tinted) relating to the Korean conflict. Albumen prints, 9 1/4x10 3/4 inches (23.5x27.3 cm.), nearly all with a letterpress caption on the facing leaf; the Korean scenes with a handwritten caption below each photograph; the Aino print is 4 1/2x5 1/2 inches (11.4x13.9 cm.). Royal folio, 1/4 morocco, minor edgewear. Circa 1871
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Notes: One of the most accomplished of the British photographers to work in Asia, Beato''s Japanese photographs document the people, scenery and sites along the Tokaido, the latter series recalling the ukiyo-e of Hiroshige and Hokusai. The late 1860s-early 1870s was a significant time to be photographing in Japan since foreign access to (and within) the country was greatly restricted by the Shogunate. Beato''s images are remarkable not only for their quality but for their rarity. His photographic views of Edo-period Japan provide an intimate glimpse into Asian cultural practices, such as tattooing. According to an album caption, "It is believed that the custom of tattooing originated with Sendoes, or Fisherman, who being often employed in the water, imagined that by tattooing their bodies with dragons and other figures, they would frighten away sharks or any monsters likely to harm them."
In 1871 Beato served as official photographer with the United States naval expedition of Admiral Rodgers to Korea. The views Beato took on this expedition are the earliest confirmed photographs of the country and its inhabitants.
The hand-colored prints include:
"Mother and Child" * "Dancing Girl" * "Woman in Winter Dress" * "Priests" * "Fishmonger" * "Japanese doctor and patient" * "Coolie" * "Mr. Shojiro" * "Country Girl in Traveling Costume" * "Japanese Yokinin" * "Out for a Walk" * "Group in the street" * "Priest with Pastoral Staff" * "A Social Meal" * "Woman using Cosmetic" * "Firemen with their Standard" * "Fusiyama Pilgrim" * "Sedan Chair" * "Cart Pushing" * "Sleeping Beauties" * "Bettoes, or Grooms" * "Resting at a Tea House" * "Curio Shop" * "Girl Playing Samisen" * "Northerners" * "A Group of Southern Officers" * "Street Refreshment Stalls" * "The Original ''Grecian Bend''" * "Mode of Shampooing" * "Straw Rain Coat" * "Yaconin Traveling on the Tokaido" * "Japanese Boat" * "House Boat" * "Japanese Boat" (variant) * "Go" * "Street Actors" * "Moos''mie" * "Amma--or Shampooer" * "Sumotori or Wrestlers" * "Traveling Dentist" * "The Japanese Hercules" * "Escort Officer" * "Sumotori or Wrestlers" (variant) * "Wrestler" (variant) * "Musical Party" * "Mendicant Nun" * "Rokubu" * "Men in Semi-Foreign Costumes" * "The Belle of Ogie" * "Kango Bearers" * "The Toilet" * "Coolie" * Woman and baby (no caption) * "Man in costume" * "Traveling Merchant" * "Courier or Postman" * "Kango Bearers" * "Mendicant Nun" (variant) * "Coolie" (with headwrap) * "Aino Chiefs" and "Execution."
The 5 prints that are not hand-colored include a series of military images:
"Village on the Island of Kanghoa" * "The Island of Boisee" * "Corean [sic] officers and soldiers aboard the Colorado" * "Group of captives aboard the Colorado" * "Council of war after the treacherous attack of the Coreans [sic] at Imre."
JPGs are available upon request.
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