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The journey of "a good type" : from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs / David Odo ; foreword by Elizabeth Edwards

Corporate Author
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
xviii, 125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Odo, David

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Contents
Illustrations -- Foreword: What photographs "do" in museums / by Elizabeth Edwards -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A valuable collection. The collectors -- 2. Visual journeys. Souvenir photography in Japan ; A journey through "Old Japan" ; Beneath the surface -- 3. Vanishing types. The vanishing type ; Photographing the type ; Anthropometric photographs ; "Historic boards" in the Peabody Museum ; Scientific type photography in Japan -- 4. Visual salvage. Salvaging Japan ; Museums and visual salvage ; Native types -- 5. Visualizing the future.
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ISBN
9780873654081 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0873654080 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs; 2015
Endowment Note
Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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