[Great Buddha, Kamakura] – Vintage Print
![[Great Buddha, Kamakura], [1908] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/74fd5ccbb34f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Great Buddha, Kamakura] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Great Buddha, Kamakura]
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Seen from the front, the bronze figure at Kamakura is a seated Amida Buddha, cast in 1252 and still sitting in the open air at Kōtoku-in temple, where its great hall was lost to storms centuries ago. Arnold Genthe, the German-born American photographer best known for his portraits and his views of San Francisco, made this gelatin silver print in 1908. The statue was already a popular stop for foreign travelers by then, and Genthe's image shows how its calm, weathered presence stood apart from the temple grounds around it.
| Created / published | [1908] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Arnold Genthe Collection (Library of Congress). Unprocessed in PR 6 CN 347 |
| Subjects | Gautama Buddha--Statues. Buddhist temples--Japan--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,078 × 4,165 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-199765 |
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