Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-century New England Photography Collections

Download or read book Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-century New England Photography Collections written by Eleanor M. Hight and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--