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KUSAKABE (KIMBEI) An album of 50 views and portraits, [1880s]
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Footnotes
Kusakabe (1841-1934) was a talented artist and photographer who, in the 1860s, joined Felix Beato as a photo-colourist before becoming his full time assistant. He opened a studio in Yokohama in 1880 which, by 1892, held a portfolio of upwards of 2000 images. "In particular, his landscapes capture the beauty of nineteenth-century Japan... the models in his posed shots seem more at ease than those of his contemporaries' photos" (Terry Bennett, Early Japanese Images, 1996, p.50).
The 32 views include; Nikko (15), Kobe (4), Nagasaki (2), Yokohama, Arima, Kansawa, Kamakura, and Tokyo: The 18 portraits and studio subjects include; Girl Smoking Pipe, Sleeping Girl, Spinning Cotton, Carrying Baby, Kage - Travelling Chair, Samurai in Armour (illustrated), Buck-wheat Maccaroni Eating, and Shinto Priest.