Los 4045

Japan
Japanese portraits

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Photographer: Baron Raimund Stillfried-Ratenicz (1839-1911), Felice Beato (1832-1909), Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1932), and unknown. Japanese portraits. 1870s-90s. 28 hand-colored albumen prints. Each circa 24 x 20 cm. Some with number and title in lower corners in the negative, most mounted to board and matted.

Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Felice Beato, and Kusakabe Kimbei were influential photographers who played key roles in documenting Japan during the late 19th century. Stillfried and Beato, both foreign photographers, captured the landscapes, architecture, and people of Japan, with Beato’s work being among the first visual records of the country for Western audiences. Kusakabe Kimbei, a Japanese photographer who trained under Stillfried and Beato, became known for his hand-colored images of traditional Japanese scenes, catering primarily to Western visitors during the Meiji period.This attractive group includes photographs of street sellers, monks, priests, geishas, wrestlers, tattooed men and craftsmen. The coloring is often exceptionally subtle and finely executed. – Several faded, especially in edges, some with light scuff/handling marks, some with light spots, otherwise most in good condition.

Lit.: Claudia Gabriele Philippe/Dietmar Siegert/ Rainer Wick (eds.). Felice Beato in Japan. Photographien zum Ende der Feudal Zeit 1863-1873. Heidelberg 1991, ill. pp. 155, 160, 168 and 172.
Alfried Wieczorek/Claude W. Sui (eds.). Ins Land der Kirschblüte. Japanische Reisefotografien aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Heidelberg 2011, ill. p. 144 (Farmer with grass coat-Kimbei).

Errata/Addenda:This lot has 44 albumen prints. Most are mounted on both sides of board.