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This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two v... more This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two visits to Japan in 1860–61. Among the expeditions sent to Japan in the two decades following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1854, that dispatched by the Kingdom of Prussia and headed by Count Friedrich zu Eulenburg was arguably best equipped to create a comprehensive photographic record, having at its disposal an impressive range of up-to-date photographic equipment and employing at one time no fewer than three photographers who operated in association with two official artists working in more traditional media. Nevertheless, there were problems. The employment of three photographers was a belated response to the discovery that the official photographer, Carl Bismarck, was lacking the experience and skill required to fulfill his task, and, even though this and other difficulties were overcome, the resulting portfolio had a limited circulation. Drawing on contemporary Prussian sources, including a recently discovered group of these images, this essay attempts to reconstruct the photographic work of the Eulenburg mission and explain its disappearance.
Dès les années 1840, et plus largement à partir des années 1850, la photographie est introduite ... more Dès les années 1840, et plus largement à partir des années 1850, la photographie est introduite en Asie, dans le sillage des conquêtes occidentales. Elle est dans un premier temps pratiquée par des opérateurs européens qui vont ensuite transmettre sa technique et former des opérateurs locaux.
Il faudra attendre les années 1970, et un certain recul, pour que les historiens s'y intéressent et lui redonnent sa place dans l'histoire mondiale de la photographie.
Ce livre, le premier en langue française, dresse un panorama exceptionnel
de la photographie en Asie au XIXe siècle, et de sa diffusion d'ouest en est, depuis l'Afghanistan, l'Inde, Ceylan et la Birmanie, en passant par le Siam, le Cambodge, la Cochinchine, l'Annam, le Tonkin, puis la Malaisie, l'Indonésie, les Philippines, jusqu'à la Chine, le Japon et la Corée.
Auteur(s) :
Jérôme Ghesquière
Contributeur(s) :
Terry Bennett, Sebastian Dobson, Claude Estèbe, Marie-Hélène Estève, John Falconer, Gael Newton, Frances Terpak
Papers by Sebastian Dobson
International Conference on Research of Old Japanese Photographs "International Exchange Dep... more International Conference on Research of Old Japanese Photographs "International Exchange Depicted in Old Photographs": November 16th-17th 2007, Nagasaki University (2F Multipurpose Hall, General Education and Reserch Building)
Trans-Asia Photography Review, 2012
History of Photography, 2009
This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two v... more This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two visits to Japan in 1860–61. Among the expeditions sent to Japan in the two decades following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1854, that dispatched by the Kingdom of Prussia and headed by Count Friedrich zu Eulenburg was arguably best equipped to create a comprehensive photographic record, having at its disposal an impressive range of up-to-date photographic equipment and employing at one time no fewer than three photographers who operated in association with two official artists working in more traditional media. Nevertheless, there were problems. The employment of three photographers was a belated response to the discovery that the official photographer, Carl Bismarck, was lacking the experience and skill required to fulfill his task, and, even though this and other difficulties were overcome, the resulting portfolio had a limited circulation. Drawing on contemporary Prussian sources, including a recently discovered group of these images, this essay attempts to reconstruct the photographic work of the Eulenburg mission and explain its disappearance.
History of Photography, 2009
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Book Reviews by Sebastian Dobson
Review of Luke GARTLAN: A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photog... more Review of Luke GARTLAN: A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography, Brill Photography in Asia. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2016. ISBN: 978-90-04-28932-1.
Published in OAG Notizen, 11/2017, 49-53.
Book Chapters and Articles by Sebastian Dobson
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (ed.): Shimooka Renjô: A Pioneer of Japanese Photography/ 東京都写真美術館監修 『下岡蓮杖 日本写真の開拓者, 2014
Essay contributed to a bilingual (Japanese-English) publication accompanying an exhibition held a... more Essay contributed to a bilingual (Japanese-English) publication accompanying an exhibition held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2014 to mark the centenary of the death of the Shimooka Renjô (1823-1914), regarded by some as the father of Japanese photography.
The other contributions include: Morishige Kazuo, 'The Life and Times of Shimooka Renjô'; Saitô Takio, 'Shimooka Renjô in Shimoda, Uraga and Yokohama'; Ishiguro Keishô, 'Shimooka Renjô's Nude Photography'; Minami Miyuki, 'The Painter Shimooka Renjô: His Technique as seen in his Western Paintings'; Mitsui Keishi, 'A Pioneer of Japanese Photography: Shimooka Renjô's Place in History', and a collection of reference materials.
Philip K. Hu (ed.): Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, 2017
Essay contributed to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at Saint Lou... more Essay contributed to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at Saint Louis Art Museum in 2017 which showcased the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese military prints and related materials.
The publication also contains contributions by other scholars: Philip K. Hu, 'Art and War in Modern Japan: Collecting and Exhibiting Meiji War Prints and Related Materials'; Andreas Marks, 'Meiji-Period War Prints and Their Publishers'; Sonja Hotwagner, 'Laughter about War in Modern Japan: Three Series of Satirical Prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika'; Rhiannon Paget, 'Imagery of Japan's Modern Wars in Western Media', and Maki Kaneko, 'War Heroes of Modern Japan: Early 1930s War Fever and the Three Brave Bombers'.
Sir Hugh Cortazzi (ed.): Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV, 2002
This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two v... more This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two visits to Japan in 1860–61. Among the expeditions sent to Japan in the two decades following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1854, that dispatched by the Kingdom of Prussia and headed by Count Friedrich zu Eulenburg was arguably best equipped to create a comprehensive photographic record, having at its disposal an impressive range of up-to-date photographic equipment and employing at one time no fewer than three photographers who operated in association with two official artists working in more traditional media. Nevertheless, there were problems. The employment of three photographers was a belated response to the discovery that the official photographer, Carl Bismarck, was lacking the experience and skill required to fulfill his task, and, even though this and other difficulties were overcome, the resulting portfolio had a limited circulation. Drawing on contemporary Prussian sources, including a recently discovered group of these images, this essay attempts to reconstruct the photographic work of the Eulenburg mission and explain its disappearance.
Dès les années 1840, et plus largement à partir des années 1850, la photographie est introduite ... more Dès les années 1840, et plus largement à partir des années 1850, la photographie est introduite en Asie, dans le sillage des conquêtes occidentales. Elle est dans un premier temps pratiquée par des opérateurs européens qui vont ensuite transmettre sa technique et former des opérateurs locaux.
Il faudra attendre les années 1970, et un certain recul, pour que les historiens s'y intéressent et lui redonnent sa place dans l'histoire mondiale de la photographie.
Ce livre, le premier en langue française, dresse un panorama exceptionnel
de la photographie en Asie au XIXe siècle, et de sa diffusion d'ouest en est, depuis l'Afghanistan, l'Inde, Ceylan et la Birmanie, en passant par le Siam, le Cambodge, la Cochinchine, l'Annam, le Tonkin, puis la Malaisie, l'Indonésie, les Philippines, jusqu'à la Chine, le Japon et la Corée.
Auteur(s) :
Jérôme Ghesquière
Contributeur(s) :
Terry Bennett, Sebastian Dobson, Claude Estèbe, Marie-Hélène Estève, John Falconer, Gael Newton, Frances Terpak
International Conference on Research of Old Japanese Photographs "International Exchange Dep... more International Conference on Research of Old Japanese Photographs "International Exchange Depicted in Old Photographs": November 16th-17th 2007, Nagasaki University (2F Multipurpose Hall, General Education and Reserch Building)
Trans-Asia Photography Review, 2012
History of Photography, 2009
This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two v... more This essay examines the use of photography by the Prussian East Asian Expedition during its two visits to Japan in 1860–61. Among the expeditions sent to Japan in the two decades following the opening of the country to foreign trade in 1854, that dispatched by the Kingdom of Prussia and headed by Count Friedrich zu Eulenburg was arguably best equipped to create a comprehensive photographic record, having at its disposal an impressive range of up-to-date photographic equipment and employing at one time no fewer than three photographers who operated in association with two official artists working in more traditional media. Nevertheless, there were problems. The employment of three photographers was a belated response to the discovery that the official photographer, Carl Bismarck, was lacking the experience and skill required to fulfill his task, and, even though this and other difficulties were overcome, the resulting portfolio had a limited circulation. Drawing on contemporary Prussian sources, including a recently discovered group of these images, this essay attempts to reconstruct the photographic work of the Eulenburg mission and explain its disappearance.
History of Photography, 2009
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Review of Luke GARTLAN: A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photog... more Review of Luke GARTLAN: A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography, Brill Photography in Asia. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2016. ISBN: 978-90-04-28932-1.
Published in OAG Notizen, 11/2017, 49-53.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (ed.): Shimooka Renjô: A Pioneer of Japanese Photography/ 東京都写真美術館監修 『下岡蓮杖 日本写真の開拓者, 2014
Essay contributed to a bilingual (Japanese-English) publication accompanying an exhibition held a... more Essay contributed to a bilingual (Japanese-English) publication accompanying an exhibition held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2014 to mark the centenary of the death of the Shimooka Renjô (1823-1914), regarded by some as the father of Japanese photography.
The other contributions include: Morishige Kazuo, 'The Life and Times of Shimooka Renjô'; Saitô Takio, 'Shimooka Renjô in Shimoda, Uraga and Yokohama'; Ishiguro Keishô, 'Shimooka Renjô's Nude Photography'; Minami Miyuki, 'The Painter Shimooka Renjô: His Technique as seen in his Western Paintings'; Mitsui Keishi, 'A Pioneer of Japanese Photography: Shimooka Renjô's Place in History', and a collection of reference materials.
Philip K. Hu (ed.): Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan, 2017
Essay contributed to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at Saint Lou... more Essay contributed to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name held at Saint Louis Art Museum in 2017 which showcased the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese military prints and related materials.
The publication also contains contributions by other scholars: Philip K. Hu, 'Art and War in Modern Japan: Collecting and Exhibiting Meiji War Prints and Related Materials'; Andreas Marks, 'Meiji-Period War Prints and Their Publishers'; Sonja Hotwagner, 'Laughter about War in Modern Japan: Three Series of Satirical Prints by Kobayashi Kiyochika'; Rhiannon Paget, 'Imagery of Japan's Modern Wars in Western Media', and Maki Kaneko, 'War Heroes of Modern Japan: Early 1930s War Fever and the Three Brave Bombers'.
Sir Hugh Cortazzi (ed.): Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV, 2002
レンズが撮られた 幕末の写真師 上野彦馬の世界, 2012
An examination of the photographer Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904) and his foreign clientele.
History of Photography, 2009
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Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VIII, 2013
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VIII, 2013
Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VIII, 2013
Old Photography Study, 2009
Among the numerous commissions which Count Eulenburg had to discharge during his 21-week-long sta... more Among the numerous commissions which Count Eulenburg had to discharge during his 21-week-long stay in Edo during 1860-61, perhaps the most peculiar was a request from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin to present a gift for which no recipient had been identified...
PhotoResearcher: ESHPh (European Society for the History of Photography), 2011
On 24 January 1861, the only French passengers on board the British steamer Cadiz disembarked in ... more On 24 January 1861, the only French passengers on board the British steamer Cadiz disembarked in Yokohama. With little in common apart from their nationality, a shared interest in photography and their recent experiences with the Anglo-French Expedition to China, the journalist Antoine Fauchery and Colonel Charles-Louis Du Pin, head of the Service topographique of the French army in China, made a strange pair. The former was a restless Bohemian writer who had lived in Australia and practiced a variety of trades, including photography, while the latter was a hardened veteran of five campaigns with the French army, already twice-decorated with the Légion d’honneur...
Sir Hugh Cortazzi (ed.): Britain and Japan. Biographical Portraits, 2013
In the context of Anglo-Japanese relations, Utsunomiya Tarō is remembered as Japan's military att... more In the context of Anglo-Japanese relations, Utsunomiya Tarō is remembered as Japan's military attaché in London during the years 1901-05, and is perhaps best known for his supporting role in the so-called 'Akashi Operation' in Europe during the Russo-Japanese War.
In North and South Korea, meanwhile, Utsunomiya is more controversially remembered for his role in suppressing the wave of strikes and demonstrations that accompanied the attempt to declare Korean independence from Japan on 1 March 1919. However, far from being an unthinking agent of repression, Utsunomiya emerges from his diaries as an embattled advocate of Pan-Asianism.
History of photography, Jan 1, 2009