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A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke Gartlan (Hardback, 2015)

A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most important foreign-born photographer of the Meiji era and one of the first globally active photographers of his generation. Based on extensive new primary sources and unpublished documents from archives around the world, this book examines von Stillfried's significance as a cultural mediator between Japan and Central Europe. Awarded the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Japanese Studies.

Place of Publication
Leiden
Series Part/Volume Number
1
Series Title
Photography in Asia
Author Biography
Luke Gartlan (PhD 2004) is a lecturer at the School of Art History, University of St Andrews. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed international quarterly History of Photography, and co-editor, with Ali Behdad, of Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (Getty Research Institute, 2013). His research concerns photography and cultural exchange in the nineteenth century, especially with reference to the camera's role in colonial-era visual culture, histories of travel and exploration, and non-Western responses to photography.
Date of Publication
01/12/2015
Genre
Photography
Country of Publication
Netherlands

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