Album page of sepia photographs of Japanese beauties – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Album page of sepia photographs of Japanese beauties. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Album page of sepia photographs of Japanese beauties
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Few details are given beyond the title, which describes an album page of sepia photographs showing Japanese beauties, a term for idealized women's portraits that was popular in Japan and among Western collectors from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth. Photographs of this kind were often hand-colored or toned to a warm brown, and many were sold as souvenirs or studio portraits made for foreign visitors. Because the page groups several images together, it reflects how such pictures were collected and arranged in albums as keepsakes of a country that was then drawing wide attention in the West. Its warm tones and posed figures are worth noticing as examples of how photography took up the conventions of Japanese woodblock prints.
| Original scan | 3,660 × 4,550 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g08646_ |
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