PORTRAIT OF YOUNG LADY WEARING A FURISODE SLEEVED KIMONO, THE AIZ? MORIKAWA STUDIO, TOKYO, 1920S. COLLECTION ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. GIFT OF GAELNEWTON AM 2021 – TAASA Review September 2022
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Many studies have celebrated pioneer 19th and early 20th century Asian photographers, such as Uchida Kuichi, Kasakabei Kimbei and Ogawas Kazumasa in Japan, all of whom were well known internationally in their lifetimes as they catered to foreign tourists and overseas markets.
The proprietors, clientele and histories of the thousands of domestic portrait studios which provided services across Asia in this period will probably never be known in detail.
However as Marine Cabos notes in The Cultural Revolution Through the Prism of Vernacular Photography (Cabos 2017) in the last two decades scholars and artists have been paying greater attention to vernacular photography ie images such as modest studio portraits made for personal use and limited public circulation...