Access Photography In Japan 1853-1912 Edited By Terry Bennett Provided As Digital

a shame some reviewers here clearly need a lot of nice pictures to make it easier for them get through a serious book on photographic history.
Far from being a dull writer, Bennett is doing his job as a researcher, and anyway, there are some great stories here alongside the description and analysis.
He'd be equally lambasted by other scholars if his text was too superficial, I do agree with what has been said here about the images, though, they are superb, This book is a treasure for anyone interested in the subject, Photography in Japan is a fascinating visual record of Japanese culture during its metamorphosis from a feudal society to a modern, industrial nation at a time when the art of photography was still in its infancy.
Therare and antique photos in this book, most of them published here for the first time, chronicle the introduction of

photography in Japan and early Japanese photography.
The images are more than just a history of photography in Japan they are vital in helping to understand the dramatic changes that occurred in Japan during the midnineteenth century.


These rare Japanese photographswhether sensational or everyday, intimate or panoramicdocument a nation about to abandon its traditional ways and enter the modern era.
Taken betweenandby the most important Japanese and foreign photographers working in Japan, this is the first book to document the history of early photography in Japan a comprehensive and systematic way.
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