1 Item (Photographic print : on mount 26 x 20.8 cm, hand coloring, image 24.3 x 19.3 cm.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Portraits
Place:
Asia
Japan
Date:
1892
Scope and Contents:
Portrait of Ogawa's parents.
Biographical / Historical:
Mastering photography under Shimooka Renjo, Ogawa opened a studio in Tokyo in 1884. In 1888, he established Japan's first collotype printing business, and in the following year he formed the Nihon Shashin-kai (Japanese Photographic Association) with Tokyo Imperial University professor William Burton. Ogawa was often commissioned to photograph the Imperial family, and was the first to establish dry-plate technology in Japan. His first name can also be read as Isshin and Kazuma.
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
