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Author Odo, David, author.

Title The journey of "a good type" : from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs / David Odo ; foreword by Elizabeth Edwards.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 125 pages) : color illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
Contents Illustrations -- Foreword: What photographs "do" in museums / by Elizabeth Edwards -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A valuable collection. The collectors -- 2. Visual journeys. Souvenir photography in Japan ; A journey through "Old Japan" ; Beneath the surface -- 3. Vanishing types. The vanishing type ; Photographing the type ; Anthropometric photographs ; "Historic boards" in the Peabody Museum ; Scientific type photography in Japan -- 4. Visual salvage. Salvaging Japan ; Museums and visual salvage ; Native types -- 5. Visualizing the future.
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Subject Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology -- Photograph collections.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Photograph collections.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology -- Photograph collections.
Photography -- Japan -- 19th century -- History.
Photography.
Japan.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject History.
Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Japan -- History -- 19th century.
Visual anthropology -- Japan -- 19th century.
Visual anthropology.
Visual anthropology -- Japan -- 19th century.
Photography -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works.
Japan -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Illustrated works.
History.
Illustrated works.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Other Form: Print version: Odo, David. Journey of "a good type". Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, [2015] 9780873654081 (DLC) 2014044372 (OCoLC)893709536
ISBN 9780674251335 (electronic book)
0674251334 (electronic book)
9780873654081
0873654080
Standard No. 40025141746