Fukuhara, ShinzoParis et la Seine. Tokyo: [Privately Printed] by Seigei Printing Co., [1922]
Folio (350 x 270 mm). 24 photographic plates tipped in; light toning and occasional fingersoiling to paper mounts, about 5 plates with light spotting. Original patterned paper boards with quarter gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt; rubbed with losses to paper at extremities, spine sunned, scattered splitting and fraying to cloth.
The first edition of Shinzo Fukuhara's masterpiece of Japanese photography, number 103 from the limited edition of 300 copies. Fukuhara Shinzo is regarded as one of the fathers of modern Japanese photography. Born in Tokyo in 1883, he came to New York to pursue studies in his family business — pharmacology — at Columbia University. Before returning to Japan in 1913, he traveled throughout Europe, including a six month period in Paris, during which these photos were taken.
Fukuhara's work bears many of the hallmarks of pictorialism, but is infused with a particularly Japanese sensibility. Titus Broeder describes this ethos as follows: "Shinzo advocated a lyricism, said to be shaped by the traditions of haiku. Haiku is a form of poetry developed in the 17th century that aims to distill the beauty of the mundane in a few syllables. Fukuhara applied the process of distillation to photography by going close to a carefully selected object and using the range of depth of the camera to infuse it with a lyrical note that is entirely absent from the object as such." The result is a compelling suite of a pictorialist photographs on the cusp of modernism.
Exceedingly rare. There are no copies of the first edition in OCLC, and we can find no other copies in the auction records. The second edition of 1935 is almost just as scarce: OCLC cites one copy, with only one record at auction.
REFERENCE:Boeder, Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period 19 (the second edition only)
Fukuhara, ShinzoParis et la Seine. Tokyo: [Privately Printed] by Seigei Printing Co., [1922]
Folio (350 x 270 mm). 24 photographic plates tipped in; light toning and occasional fingersoiling to paper mounts, about 5 plates with light spotting. Original patterned paper boards with quarter gray cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt; rubbed with losses to paper at extremities, spine sunned, scattered splitting and fraying to cloth.
The first edition of Shinzo Fukuhara's masterpiece of Japanese photography, number 103 from the limited edition of 300 copies. Fukuhara Shinzo is regarded as one of the fathers of modern Japanese photography. Born in Tokyo in 1883, he came to New York to pursue studies in his family business — pharmacology — at Columbia University. Before returning to Japan in 1913, he traveled throughout Europe, including a six month period in Paris, during which these photos were taken.
Fukuhara's work bears many of the hallmarks of pictorialism, but is infused with a particularly Japanese sensibility. Titus Broeder describes this ethos as follows: "Shinzo advocated a lyricism, said to be shaped by the traditions of haiku. Haiku is a form of poetry developed in the 17th century that aims to distill the beauty of the mundane in a few syllables. Fukuhara applied the process of distillation to photography by going close to a carefully selected object and using the range of depth of the camera to infuse it with a lyrical note that is entirely absent from the object as such." The result is a compelling suite of a pictorialist photographs on the cusp of modernism.
Exceedingly rare. There are no copies of the first edition in OCLC, and we can find no other copies in the auction records. The second edition of 1935 is almost just as scarce: OCLC cites one copy, with only one record at auction.
REFERENCE:Boeder, Japanese Photography from the Pre-War Period 19 (the second edition only)
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