Black & White Photo - Japanese Ukiyo-e drawing – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Black & White Photo - Japanese Ukiyo-e drawing, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Black & White Photo - Japanese Ukiyo-e drawing
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Rather than a single famous print, this entry describes a black-and-white photographic copy of a Japanese ukiyo-e image dated 1750, which places it in the mid-Edo period. Ukiyo-e, meaning "pictures of the floating world," showed actors, courtesans, travelers and landscapes for a growing urban audience, and the record's "fine prints" label points to the woodblock tradition that made such images widely available. Around 1750, printmakers were still working mostly in black line with a few hand-applied or two-color tints, so a monochrome copy preserves the line work and composition that defined the style. A photograph of a print also loses its paper texture and original colors, so it is best read as a record of design rather than of the original surface.
| Created / published | 1750 |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Japanese Fine Prints |
| Original scan | 973 × 800 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-JFP-227985 |
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