Okinawa Soba (Rob)
T. ENAMI - Raw 3D Proof Print and Finished Stereoview
Meiji-era photographer T. ENAMI shot this stereoview in Arashiyama (on the outskirts of Kyoto) circa 1899-1903. That's the "Togetsukyo" or "Moon Crossing Bridge" over the river.
The woman in the photo is most likely a Geisha hired by Enami at a local Tea House. Employing local Geisha and Maiko as models for commercial photographs was a common practice at the time.
ARASHIYAMA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arashiyama
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4226041927/
TOP VIEW
The top view is a PROOF PRINT from one of several variant negatives taken on the spot, as his model moved slightly between each exposure.
It is contact printed directly from the negative, and can be viewed "cross-eyed". The back is marked up with Enami's English and Japanese notes, as well as his negative number.
Because it is a proof print, the images remain un-transposed, and are viewable in 3-D using the cross-eyed method.
The proofs were not meant to be cut apart and mounted. Rather, they were part of his private reference data, and a guide to his negative stock.
Further, original copies of these proofs were also sent to his American distributor, GRIFFITH & GRIFFITH of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who sold hundreds of T. Enami stereoview titles during the years 1900 through 1907.
BOTTOM VIEW
The bottom image --- a finished, hand-tinted stereoview --- was made by Enami from a variant negative. The two halves were "transposed" and printed again on one piece of paper (sometimes, he cut the images apart, and mounted them as two separate left and right images).
The finished stereoview was cataloged as S 674 - Togetsu Bridge Arashiyama, Kyoto, and was meant to be viewed in a Stereoscope.
However, with some serious practice, it can also be free-viewed with your eyes using the parallel method, and pop into natural 3-D right on your viewing screen.
♥ THE LANTERN-SLIDE VERSION IS HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/okinawa-soba/13929050122/
♥ ENAMI'S COMMERCIAL 3-D & LANTERN-SLIDE CATALOG IS DESCRIBED HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/okinawa-soba/3947666515/
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Enami was Japan's most prolific and greatest Stereo Photographer during its entire pre-WW2 photographic history, and his views were the only Japanese-made 3-D images to be picked up and sold by Western publishers during the Meiji era.
While many Japanese greats such as KIMBEI, TAMAMURA, K. OGAWA, and others worked during the same time as Enami, many publishers and collectors eventually chose Enami's more "useful" work --- such as lantern slides and stereoviews --- over the standard album views of the others.
Enami was also a prolific veteran of the "Yokohama Album" photograph. However, where the "famous names" got "stuck in a rut" with 2-D paper prints, Enami was not bound by those conventions, and expressed his art more fully on the delicately-tinted glass slide images, and with the added "depth" of well-executed stereoviews.
Enami was the only Meiji-era photographer who worked in all popular formats of his day, and the most important artistic and commercial photographer to bridge the gap between the days of the "classic" album views, and the pictorialism of the "Taisho Art" photography movement.
His images were eventually published in several issues of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, and were seen by millions more as illustrations in books of that time.
In 1988, the photography editors of National Geographic Society, together with the curators of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, unanimously chose one of T. Enami's black & white images to be the sole inset photograph on the first-edition cover of monumental ODYSSEY -- THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
Here's a color version of the picture they used : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2311925788/
Search "T. Enami" on flickr, and you can see many of his old and beautiful images of Japan.
For more about Enami, see : www.t-enami.org/
Here's a quick flickr pic of Enami himself : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2383039735/
江南信國 江南 信國
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RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
T. ENAMI - Raw 3D Proof Print and Finished Stereoview
Meiji-era photographer T. ENAMI shot this stereoview in Arashiyama (on the outskirts of Kyoto) circa 1899-1903. That's the "Togetsukyo" or "Moon Crossing Bridge" over the river.
The woman in the photo is most likely a Geisha hired by Enami at a local Tea House. Employing local Geisha and Maiko as models for commercial photographs was a common practice at the time.
ARASHIYAMA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arashiyama
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/4226041927/
TOP VIEW
The top view is a PROOF PRINT from one of several variant negatives taken on the spot, as his model moved slightly between each exposure.
It is contact printed directly from the negative, and can be viewed "cross-eyed". The back is marked up with Enami's English and Japanese notes, as well as his negative number.
Because it is a proof print, the images remain un-transposed, and are viewable in 3-D using the cross-eyed method.
The proofs were not meant to be cut apart and mounted. Rather, they were part of his private reference data, and a guide to his negative stock.
Further, original copies of these proofs were also sent to his American distributor, GRIFFITH & GRIFFITH of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who sold hundreds of T. Enami stereoview titles during the years 1900 through 1907.
BOTTOM VIEW
The bottom image --- a finished, hand-tinted stereoview --- was made by Enami from a variant negative. The two halves were "transposed" and printed again on one piece of paper (sometimes, he cut the images apart, and mounted them as two separate left and right images).
The finished stereoview was cataloged as S 674 - Togetsu Bridge Arashiyama, Kyoto, and was meant to be viewed in a Stereoscope.
However, with some serious practice, it can also be free-viewed with your eyes using the parallel method, and pop into natural 3-D right on your viewing screen.
♥ THE LANTERN-SLIDE VERSION IS HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/okinawa-soba/13929050122/
♥ ENAMI'S COMMERCIAL 3-D & LANTERN-SLIDE CATALOG IS DESCRIBED HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/okinawa-soba/3947666515/
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Enami was Japan's most prolific and greatest Stereo Photographer during its entire pre-WW2 photographic history, and his views were the only Japanese-made 3-D images to be picked up and sold by Western publishers during the Meiji era.
While many Japanese greats such as KIMBEI, TAMAMURA, K. OGAWA, and others worked during the same time as Enami, many publishers and collectors eventually chose Enami's more "useful" work --- such as lantern slides and stereoviews --- over the standard album views of the others.
Enami was also a prolific veteran of the "Yokohama Album" photograph. However, where the "famous names" got "stuck in a rut" with 2-D paper prints, Enami was not bound by those conventions, and expressed his art more fully on the delicately-tinted glass slide images, and with the added "depth" of well-executed stereoviews.
Enami was the only Meiji-era photographer who worked in all popular formats of his day, and the most important artistic and commercial photographer to bridge the gap between the days of the "classic" album views, and the pictorialism of the "Taisho Art" photography movement.
His images were eventually published in several issues of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, and were seen by millions more as illustrations in books of that time.
In 1988, the photography editors of National Geographic Society, together with the curators of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, unanimously chose one of T. Enami's black & white images to be the sole inset photograph on the first-edition cover of monumental ODYSSEY -- THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.
Here's a color version of the picture they used : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2311925788/
Search "T. Enami" on flickr, and you can see many of his old and beautiful images of Japan.
For more about Enami, see : www.t-enami.org/
Here's a quick flickr pic of Enami himself : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2383039735/
江南信國 江南 信國
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RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/