This photograph on glass is a hundred years old, but looks like it could have been taken yesterday. The eye and heart of a good photographer is the same in any age.
Ca.1900-1910 Hand-tinted Glass Lantern Slides sold by T. TAKAGI of KOBE. Photos attributed to KOZABURO TAMAMURA of Yokohama, who sold his negative stock and Kobe branch studio to Takagi.
Takagi also published many collotype books of Japanese images in a themed context. However, there is nothing to indicate which pictures might be by him, or by Tamamura.
Although Takagi was a camera operator in the studio, the weight of evidence for the large range of "classic images" put out under his name seem to fall to Tamamura of Yokohama, and later, Tamamura's son.
Compare the above view with a related image by T. ENAMI www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2351811408/
Enami often went for the more rustic view, dragging his camera into remote forests and mountains to get his shot. TAMAMURA / TAKAGI usually stayed closer to the towns and temple for shots like these.
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RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
trickyd3, brunette.bear, Elf-Y, and 157 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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gwashley 60 months ago | reply
Amazing! This is just phenomenal, my favorite of the set.
inverse.square 60 months ago | reply
When we compare this to modern digital, let's not forget this is a hundred years old. In 1906, about the time this photograph was made, the triode vacuum tube was invented, which was the real beginning of modern electronics. At that time, electronics were incredibly crude, barely able to produce audible sound in an old horn-type speaker. Airplanes were brand new, extremely rare, and usually crashed. Cars were still putt-putting horseless carriages, and women couldn't vote in most of the U.S..
Yet, photography was already capable of exquisite imagery that can stand beside today's best.
Okinawa Soba 60 months ago | reply
Hi G W...you are not alone. 33 others (so far) have faved this one, which is about 10 times more than most others that get any fave at all on my photostream. It is beautiful. Perfect exposure and execution as a positive transparency.
Hi Inverse...good comments and consideration of time=place context. How many of us flickr folks could go out and get this shot today with no help from in-camera electronics or computer clean-up.
Back then, the pros really had to be pros in every sense of the word, as technicians, chemists, and artists. How much of our work existing solely as 0's and 1's in some flash, CD, or hard drive medium will be around in 100 years to see and appreciate. Maybe all of it, or maybe.....???
Dulce Scalla 60 months ago | reply
This is Wonderful!
Perfect!
cymro76 55 months ago | reply
Brilliant!
Eddi van W. 54 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Creative Commons- Free Pictures, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
telephasicworkshop 53 months ago | reply
fantastic! kinda looks like one of those stage sets formed from layered cut-outs.
Du Rêve!! 53 months ago | reply
Konnichiwa, Soba-san.
Ever since I saw this pic from your vast collection, it became one of my favorites. Would you care to add it to the "Ars longa..." pool? I know you receive invitations like this very often, but I'd really appreciate it. Please feel free to add as many other pictures as you like. Your contributions are always welcome.
vramak 52 months ago | reply
I'm using this pic in my blog ( vvid.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/stairway-to-heaven/ ) Thank you! :-)
Okinawa Soba 52 months ago | reply
Vramak --- Wow...looks great on your blog page ! (Much better than it looks here on my own page. Something to be said for putting these kinds of pics on a dark background). Keep up the good work.
vramak 52 months ago | reply
thanks soba. you too keep up the
'unbelievable-truly amazing' work. :-)
luna_oscura 48 months ago | reply
This picture is beautiful!
Greedykitty - WorkAsFun 47 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Photografica, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
lunamom58 33 months ago | reply
Thank you so much for sharing...I've used this image here:
www.flickr.com/photos/30797387@N04/5013670742/
lunamom58 32 months ago | reply
I really love this image and I've used it yet again...hope you like it.
acire111 32 months ago | reply
Very beautiful,thanks for adding CC license,I'd love to use this some time in future.
Okinawa Soba 32 months ago | reply
Not only this one, but ALL of the old photos on my photostrean are CC and ready to go. No need to ask...permission already granted !
skipping-stones 28 months ago | reply
Serene.
54StorminWillyGJ54 27 months ago | reply
Simply beautiful!
lunamom58 25 months ago | reply
And yet again....thank you!
