CultureJapanese
Titles
- Untitled
- (fishing boats)
Date1920s
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 × 9 in. (16.5 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 in. (16.5 × 22.9 cm)
Mount: 10 1/8 × 12 in. (25.7 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 in. (16.5 × 22.9 cm)
Mount: 10 1/8 × 12 in. (25.7 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker in memory of Koji Ishiwata
Object number2015.25
Non exposé
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Printed label on verso mount: CHARLES SCHWARTZ LTD / 21 East 90th Street / New York, NY 10128 / (212) 534-4496 cms@cs-photo.com / Anonymous (Tokyo Archivve) (sic) / Untitled (fishing boats), late 1920s / 6.5 x 9 inch Vintage Gelatin Silver Print // During the 1920s there were hundreds of photography / clubs and photographic art-study groups throughout / Japan. The Tokyo Archive is a large collection of / photographs from the 1920s and '30s that came / primarily out of these clubs. Most of the photographs / are anonymous, and they are all unique, vintage prints. Photographic prints from this period in Japan / are quite rare, as much of this work was destroyed / during WW11. / C.S.11090
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