Le peintre d'ombrelles
Kusakabe
Kimbei
About this photograph :
Le peintre d'ombrelles
In the Japan of the 19th century, photographers employed painters to water-color their prints. The tourists loved to take these photos home, showing the trades of the country.
Here the watercolor is delicately placed, allowing in the studio the effect of the sun that reflects off the surface of the sunshade that one of the artists is about to decorate with his red brush.
About the artist :
Kusakabe
Kimbei
Kusakabe Kimbei, one of the most accomplished Japanese photographers of his time, operated a studio in Yokohama from the early 1880s until 1913. Kusakabe Kimbei worked with Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant before opening his own workshop in Yokohama in 1881 in the Bentendori quarter, and from 1889 operating in the Honmachi quarter. He also opened a branch in the Ginza quarter of Tokyo. As the protégé of von Stillfried, Kusakabe Kimbei continued the tradition of the psychological studio portrait and recorded scenic views of the country while he developed his own Japanese sense of photography. Like postcards today, his work was collected by tourists and exported for sale as curiosities to those who could not visit Japan. He stopped working as a photographer in 1912-1913.
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