[JAPAN] KUSAKABE, KIMBEI. Albumina with 52 handcolored photographs.1880 ca.
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Description
4to oblung, mm. 350x270. Beautiful original binding lacquer with floral decoration, the top plate with three sizes of gold and vibrant colors depicting a landscape with sailing ship and the Fuji volcano, birds and flowering branches. The photographs are mounted on traditional accordion album, protected from the original tissue. Sheet mm. 345x270; photographic image mm. 255x200; almost all photographs, protected by tissue paper, are horizontal and are under a caption titled in English preceded by a letter and a number of cataloging.
RARE AND BEAUTIFUL ALBUM, with photographs in original coloring. Kusakabe Kimbei, excellent photographer who had worked with Felice Beato, creates album primarily for use by travelers and American tourists. In this example, in the typical original binding lacquer decorated, collected photographs of gardens, temples, landscapes, views of cities such as Kyoto, Nikko, Tokyo, Kamakura, Nagasaki, as well as portraits of girls, geishas and characters in traditional dress. The album can be dated around 1880, when Kusakabe Kimbei opened his studio in Yokohama.
Davis: “As a colorist and photographer his work is considered to be the best of the Meiji era. By the turn of the century Kimbei’s studio was the largest in Japan.” Fotografie come queste sono presenti in prestigiosi musei, come Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Museum für Fotografie, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. In 2006 a similar collection was sold by Swann Auction Galleries for $ 45.600.
Bennett: “Kusakabe Kimbei, 1841-1932, remains one of the most underrated Japanese photographers of the nineteenth century. Because of his concentration on producing souvenir albums containing hand-colored views and costumes for foreigners he is better known today in the West than he is in Japan. For today's collectors of early photograph albums, pride of place will always be given to Felix Beato and Raimund von Stillfried for their respective output in the 1860s and 1870s. However, from the 1880s onwards no studio comes close to matching Kusakabe's for the consistent quality and variety of its output.” Tony Davis, Fine 19th Century Photography Gallery; Swann Auction Galleries, Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs, 2006; Terry Bennett, Photography in Japan 1853 – 1912, 2013.On request, we have the complete list with acronyms and titles of the photographs.
Slight sign of wear at the bindnig. Nice and fresh copy with wide margins. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
RARE AND BEAUTIFUL ALBUM, with photographs in original coloring. Kusakabe Kimbei, excellent photographer who had worked with Felice Beato, creates album primarily for use by travelers and American tourists. In this example, in the typical original binding lacquer decorated, collected photographs of gardens, temples, landscapes, views of cities such as Kyoto, Nikko, Tokyo, Kamakura, Nagasaki, as well as portraits of girls, geishas and characters in traditional dress. The album can be dated around 1880, when Kusakabe Kimbei opened his studio in Yokohama.
Davis: “As a colorist and photographer his work is considered to be the best of the Meiji era. By the turn of the century Kimbei’s studio was the largest in Japan.” Fotografie come queste sono presenti in prestigiosi musei, come Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art of Cornell University, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Museum für Fotografie, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. In 2006 a similar collection was sold by Swann Auction Galleries for $ 45.600.
Bennett: “Kusakabe Kimbei, 1841-1932, remains one of the most underrated Japanese photographers of the nineteenth century. Because of his concentration on producing souvenir albums containing hand-colored views and costumes for foreigners he is better known today in the West than he is in Japan. For today's collectors of early photograph albums, pride of place will always be given to Felix Beato and Raimund von Stillfried for their respective output in the 1860s and 1870s. However, from the 1880s onwards no studio comes close to matching Kusakabe's for the consistent quality and variety of its output.” Tony Davis, Fine 19th Century Photography Gallery; Swann Auction Galleries, Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs, 2006; Terry Bennett, Photography in Japan 1853 – 1912, 2013.On request, we have the complete list with acronyms and titles of the photographs.
Slight sign of wear at the bindnig. Nice and fresh copy with wide margins. Il lotto viene venduto provvisto di licenza d'esportazione.THE LOT IS OFFERED WITH A VALID EXPORT LICENCE
