Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-5
My post yesterday on this blog showed part of an album of 25 Japanese collodion prints. They are places and landscapes of Japan in the 19th century.
The other side of the album has 25 portraits of Japanese ladies and girls.
These albums were usually printed and hand coloured for visitors to Japan as souvenirs. I have quickly copied these photographs to share here. I find them fascinating. The exposures were all for a second or more, and are carefully posed and structured. My guess is that a lot of the “models” are friends, family and servants of the photographer.
I hope to do research to find and “guess” at a little more of who they are and where these photos came from. I deliberately said “are” as they live in these photos.
Here is a gallery of the portraits, click each one to see a larger image.
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-1
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-2
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-3
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress, playing, 19th century collodion photograph-4
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-5
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-6
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-7
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-8
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-9
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- Japanese lady in formal dress, with sunshade, 19th century collodion photograph-10
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-11
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-12
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress, doing hair 19th century collodion photograph-13
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- Japanese lady in formal dress, playing instrument, 19th century collodion photograph-14
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress, playing games, 19th century collodion photograph-15
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-16
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-17
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-18
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-19
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-20
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-21
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- Japanese girl in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-22
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- Japanese ladies in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-23
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-24
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- Japanese lady in formal dress 19th century collodion photograph-25