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The journey of "a good type" : from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs
- Title
- The journey of "a good type" : from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs / David Odo ; foreword by Elizabeth Edwards.
- Author
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, [2015]
- ©2015
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- Additional Authors
- Odo, David
- Description
- xviii, 125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
- Subjects
- Photography
- Japan
- Japan > History > 19th century
- Visual anthropology
- Photography > Japan > 19th century > History
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Photograph collections
- History
- Japan > History > 19th century > Pictorial works
- 1800 - 1899
- Photograph collections
- Visual anthropology > Japan
- Photography in ethnology > Japan
- Pictorial works
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
- Contents
- Illustrations -- Foreword: What photographs "do" in museums / by Elizabeth Edwards -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A valuable collection. The collectors -- 2. Visual journeys. Souvenir photography in Japan ; A journey through "Old Japan" ; Beneath the surface -- 3. Vanishing types. The vanishing type ; Photographing the type ; Anthropometric photographs ; "Historic boards" in the Peabody Museum ; Scientific type photography in Japan -- 4. Visual salvage. Salvaging Japan ; Museums and visual salvage ; Native types -- 5. Visualizing the future.
- ISBN
- 9780873654081 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0873654080 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014044372
- OCLC
- ocn893709536
- 893709536
- SCSB-5809573
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries