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| Tamamura Kihei (ID5485, 265x205 mm) |
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| Tamamura Kihei (ID 496, 249x193 mm) |
Type: Albumen - Hand Colored
Title/Subject: "661 Daibuthu at Kamakura"
Photograph Studio: Tamamura Kozaburo
Fuente: Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period (JOPhB)
Observaciones: JOPhB atribuye la imagen ID5485 a Tamamura Kikei, si bien, es idéntica a la imagen ID 496 que si reconoce de T. Kihei. Baxley Stamps dispone de la misma imagen ID5485 pero atribuye la autoría a Tamamura Kozaburo. Si superponemos las 3 imágenes se observa que son idénticas excepto que la imagen ID 496 ha sido retocada en la copa de los árboles de la parte superior izquierda.
Bio:
Kihei Tamamura was one of Japan's leading pictorialist from the early days of this movement. He was also the son of Kozaburo Tamamura, the famous Meiji Era commercial photographer who built a photo empire based out of Yokohama. Kihei seems to have turned professional around 1900 and have taken over his father's firm shortly thereafter. He is also thought to have taken many of the classic hand colored tourist views for his father's firm from that time. When the pictorialism movement hit Japan around 1910, Kihei became quite active in this genre and became known as one of the leading Japanese art photographers from 1915 to 1930. When the Great Kanto Earthquake struck Japan in 1923, his father's business was destroyed which may have oddly freed up Kihei to devote more time to his passion of art photography. However the family business was in ruin and never recovered. Kihei's work can often be found in Japanese photo journals and photo annuals during the 1920s including the the Camera Work like photo journal "Hakuyo"; and several of the Japan Photographic Annuals by Asahi Shimbun Publishing in the late 1920s. In the journals from the mid to late 1920s Kihei is always listed as being a resident of Osaka. He is often confused with his father by historians but is easy to identify due to the pictorialist style of his images. (Fuente: Sakura-do)
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| Tamamura Kozaburo (1856-1923?). Fuente: Baxley Stamps |
Type: Albumen - Hand Colored
Image Size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inch
Title/Subject: "661 Daibuthu at Kamakura"
Photograph Studio: Tamamura Kozaburo
Fuente: Baxley Stamps
