A Career of Japan : Baron Raimund Von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography.

Intro -- A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note for the Reader -- INTRODUCTION: WITH ARGUS EYES -- The Death of a Photographer -- Objectives and Parameters -- Chapter Outline -- 1 FROM DREAMS TO SPECTERS -- On the Frontiers of Empire -- Maritime and Artistic Education -- Military Service and Travels -- Serving Emperor Maximilian in Mexico -- The Legacy of Querétaro -- Empire Lost -- 2 CHANGING VIEWS -- First Visit to Japan, 1864-65 -- Serving Empire In Absentia -- Felice Beato: Mentor and Model? -- First Portfolios -- An Expatriate Market -- The Coming of the Globetrotter -- 3 "THE MIKADO PHOTOGRAPH AFFAIR" -- Touring Yokosuka Arsenal -- Photographing the Emperor -- Censoring the Foreigner -- The Imperial Commissions -- Circulation and Display -- 4 PICTURING HOKKAIDO -- Terms and Duties -- The Hokkaido Commission -- Views of Hokkaido -- The Ainu as Subject -- Reprographic Afterlives -- 5 SEX AND VIOLENCE IN THE TEAHOUSE -- Preparations -- At the Vienna World Exposition -- A Teahouse for Vienna -- Blood Statement -- 6 A MERCHANT OF IMAGES -- Austro-Hungarian Globetrotters -- The Rise of the Japan Photographic Association -- Toward a Global Enterprise -- 7 CONSTRUCTING AND CONTESTING JAPAN -- Four Photographic Albums -- Colored Costumes -- Masters and Apprentices -- 8 THE TRIALS OF STILLFRIED -- Hermann Andersen and "Stillfried and Andersen" -- Professor Stillfried: An Expert Witness and Instructor -- The Consular Courts and the Arrival of Franz von Stillfried -- A New Series, Painted and Unpainted -- Stillfried and the Return to Paints -- Conclusion: Visual Histories and Volatile Markets -- AFTERWORD: A PRODIGAL SUBJECT -- The Presentation of Self -- Exhibiting Asia in Vienna -- Rethinking the Travel Photographer -- Appendix A.

Baron Heinrich von Calice, Jedo [Tokyo], to Count Friedrich von Beust, Vienna. Bericht über eine Beschwerde gegen Baron Stillfried wegen Aufnahme und Verkauf einer Photographie des Mikado und daraus entstandene Unzukömmlichkeiten (Report on a Complaint against Baron Stillfried due to the Taking and Marketing of a Photograph of the Mikado and Any Resulting Inconveniences), 20 January 1872. -- Appendix B -- [Watanabe Hiromoto], Transcription of an Interview with the Carpenter Genkichi, November- December 1873, Vienna. -- Appendix C -- A Brief Timeline of Raimund von Stillfried's Studios, Associates, and Competitors. -- Appendix D -- Indenture of Sale of Photographic Goods from Raimund von Stillfried to Franz von Stillfried, United States Consulate in Yokohama, 6 December 1879. -- Glossary of Japanese Terms -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most important foreign-born photographer of the Meiji era and one of the first globally active photographers of his generation. Based on extensive new primary sources and unpublished documents from archives around the world, this book examines von Stillfried's significance as a cultural mediator between Japan and Central Europe. Awarded the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Japanese Studies.

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