Hand-tinted glass lantern-slide by T. ENAMI ca.1898.
From Enami stereoview negative No. S 347.
ORIGINAL ENAMI TITLE : "Japanese Junks, Under Sail".
Out of millions of the world's greatest photographs to choose from, the combined editorial staff of both the CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART and the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY unanimously chose a black & white print version of this image by T. ENAMI to be used as the sole inset photograph on the First Edition cover of their 100th Anniversary exhibition book and catalog, the monumental ODYSSEY - THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY AT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. (1988).
Now, if THOSE folks don't know good photography when they see it, then who does ? Enami's teacher and long-time professional friend, the famous K. Ogawa, would have been very proud.
Compare the original hand-tinted photo above, with both the crop and the hand tinting of another copy of the exact same image found in the Nagasaki University Collection here :
oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/target.php?id=5081
Now, here is another one produced by Enami's studio during the same Meiji period, found in the collections of the PEABODY ESSEX MUSEM :
www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3284763157/
Or....see the flickrstream images together here : www.flickr.com/search/?w=24443965@N08&q="Japanes...
The MOTHER-LOAD of T. ENAMI images is found HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/collections/7215761388...
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RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
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Okinawa Soba 63 months ago | reply
Yup....it sure is nice. Folks usually think of old photos as slowly getting faded. But this is a good example of how things don't have to change if you keep your pictures in a cool, dry place. This shot is actually just a black-and-white photo developed on a piece of glass instead of paper. The transparent water-color was carefully brushed right on the photo by an artist in Enami's photo studio in Yokohama, and it has stayed exactly like this for well over 100 years ! Not bad, huh. All of the old "color photographs" I've posted were done like that. Some took hours to do (one to three pics a day) and the larger, more complicated ones took longer to finish. We have it easy now...color film, and digital cameras catch it all in the blink of an eye. And if we don't like it.....PhotoShop it ! All of the slides here, including the one above I copied on the kitchen table with a compact digital camera...
jatlee88 60 months ago | reply
you have the best stuff on flickr man, thanks alot for these wonderful photos dude!
Okinawa Soba 60 months ago | reply
Jatlee ! Hey, dude. Thanks for the comment ! By the way, those are some pretty great poses you did with the Bruce Lee figures. Pretty realistic stuff !
Cream & 2 sugars 59 months ago | reply
This is so beautiful. You really do offer a bit of the past for the Flickr crowd.
Thanks
The World's Gaze 58 months ago | reply
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Okinawa Soba 58 months ago | reply
Hello World ! Thanks for the inclusion on your beautiful blog site. Please note that the photo credit should go to T. ENAMI. Okinawa_Soba is only the uploader on his behalf.
The World's Gaze 58 months ago | reply
Thank you for the clarification. I updated the info.
madmonk 57 months ago | reply
What a stunning photograph!
Okinawa Soba 57 months ago | reply
Hi Madmonk. The original image you see in the scan is only about 2 x 3 inches in size. Contact on glass from a negative. It looks nice in 3-D, too.
Sev Coursen 56 months ago | reply
exquisite, thank you for sharing so many beautiful historical images
Okinawa Soba 55 months ago | reply
Hi SevEddie.....Glad you like the old pix !!
mmboom 55 months ago | reply
such beautiful pictures - the colours are so amazing....
jondresner 46 months ago | reply
Very nice picture: I've used it in a blog post at www.froginawell.net/japan/2009/08/cultural-and-physical-h... with attribution and link.
Thanks,
Jonathan
spaewaif 45 months ago | reply
Okinawa-soba...
*sigh*
Thank you SO MUCH!
Okinawa Soba 45 months ago | reply
Hi Jon --- Sorry for belatedly catching your comment and link. The blog post is nice. I like your write-up. The photo looks good there, too. Thanks !
Okinawa Soba 45 months ago | reply
Hi Speawaif --- *sigh*...you are welcome ! ;-)
conceptvessel misses the poetry of the old fl*ckr 32 months ago | reply
exquisite image... i was so happy to come across this photo in parabola's online newsletter today. thank you*
lemachidesigns 28 months ago | reply
Lovely image, glad I found it!
spaewaif 19 months ago | reply
Just found this.Interesting how an already traditional and very familiar image for prints by Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950) , "The Junk",was later reproduced in a very similar fashion by photography .
www.morra-japaneseart.com/img/prints/detail/largedetail/l...
Okinawa Soba 19 months ago | reply
Hi Spaewaif --- That was a great link, especially for showing the process. I wonder when the original print was made ? Thanks again.