Title: Ukiyoe kara shashin e : shikaku no bunmei kaika = From ukiyo-e to photography : cultural awakening in Japan's visual field /
Authors: Okatsuka, Akiko.; Wagatsuma, Naomi.; Edo Tōkyō Hakubutsukan.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Art, Japanese; Art, Japanese; Art, Japanese; Art, Modern; Photography Japan; Photography Japan History; Nihon bijutsu-Rekishi-Edo jidai.; Nihon bijutsu-Rekishi-Kindai.; Art, Japanese.; Art, Japanese Edo period.; Art, Japanese Meiji period.; Art, Modern; Photography; Japan
Contents: Prologue -- Part 1. Two worlds apart: Traditional visual arts in Japan and photographs from abroad -- Scenes of Edo and human figures -- the advent of the photograph -- Part 2. The encounter between picture and photograph -- Photographs in painting -- Capturing famous places -- Capturing the human figure -- One hundred beauties -- The world of collected antiquities -- Part 3. Mud pictures, glass pictures and 'oil photography': Oddities of the period -- The idolization of Western painting -- The invention of 'oil photography' -- Patented 'oil photography' -- Epilogue.