Capturing Japan in nineteenth century New England photography collections
By: Eleanor M. Hight
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409404989
Subjects: Japonism; New Englanders; Photography; History; Travel; Pictorial works; Case studies
Other titles: Capturing Japan in 19th century New England photography collections
Description: "Expanding the canon of photographic history, Capturing Japan in Nineteenth Century New England Photography Collections focuses on six New Englanders, whose travel and photograph collecting influenced the flowering of Japonism in late nineteenth-century Boston. The book also explores the history of Japanese photography and its main themes. The first history of its kind, this study illuminates the ways photographs, seeming conveyors of fact, imprint mental images and suppositions on their viewers"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.