The journey of "a good type": from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs

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.