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• Title:The journey of "a good type" : from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs / David Odo ; foreword by Elizabeth Edwards
  
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• Author/Creator:Odo, David, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts : Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University, [2015]
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR105 .O34 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Photography--Japan--19th century--History.
  Visual anthropology--Japan.
  Photography in ethnology--Japan.
  Japan--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
  Japan--History--19th century.
  
• Description:xviii, 125 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
  
• Notes:40025141746
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780873654081 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0873654080 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• 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