KIMBEI KUSAKABE Album containing 60 photographs of Japan by

Sale 1925 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 4,830

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Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500

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Album containing 60 photographs of Japan by Kimbei, comprising 44 beautifully colored scenic views and 16 exotic portraits. Expertly hand-tinted albumen prints, 8x10 1/4 inches and the reverse, with a caption, in English, in the plate. Oblong folio, black and red lacquer boards with colorful gilt highlights, lacks backstrip, ivory removed on front cover, front cover and contents detached; with Kimbei's hand stamp on front pastedown; all edges gilt. 1880s

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According to Asian photographs expert Clark Worswick, Kusakabe is considered "the great Japanese commercial photographer of the nineteenth century." The album contains a strong selection of his artistically colored views by this practitioner, who was Von Stillfried's operator, eventually buying his stock when the latter departed Japan in the mid-1880s. Kusakabe's speciality was "the penetrating studio portrait of the Japanese sitter." cf. <