Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography
Collections examines the evidence left behind from a famous first
encounter-that of prominent New England Americans with the remnants
of feudal Japan in the 1870s and 1880s. The study reveals that,
despite these Americans' varied reasons for traveling to Japan and
studying its culture, a common desire united all of their
collecting activities: to gather photographic documentation of a
Japan they believed was disappearing under the pressures of trade
and industrialization. Eleanor Hight focuses on the case studies of
six New Englanders, whose travel and photograph collecting
influenced the flowering of Japonism in the late nineteenth-century
Boston area-still visible today in institutions such as the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum. The book also explores the history of
Japanese photography and its main themes, from images of travel and
historic sites, to exotic subjects such as geisha and samurai. The
first history of its kind, this study makes fundamental points
about the ways photographs, seeming conveyors of fact, imprint
mental images and suppositions on their viewers.
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