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[This is the same Caption for all 25 TAISHO ART PHOTO images in this posting. Read this, and you can skip the rest, and just look at the pics!]. THIS IMAGE is one of many examples of a largely ignored facet of Old Japanese Photography -- a genre called "TAISHO ART" or "TAISHO PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY". The pictorialism movement in Japan reached its peak during the reign of EMPEROR TAISHO (1912-26), thus the name attached to the genre. These are the photographs the buying public and tourists cared the least for. They sold in fewest numbers, had the fewest fans, and even now left at the bottom of the boxes at Old Photo, Ephemera, and Post Card shows held in North America and Europe. The reason being that 99% of Japan Photo collectors go mainly for the pretty girls, early ALBUMEN Street Scenes, Occupationals, and Studio Views....and at least here on flickr, go mainly for anything that shows the slightest hint of a female breast popping out of her Kimono. In any case, all of these images were the "throw aways" I've found at the bottom of the boxes over 30 years, after all else had been "Cherry Picked. I hope a few of you flickr folks who like the 'Art" aspect of photography will like some of these....all of them manipulated in camera and darkroom by anonymous Japanese photographers of 80 to 100 years ago -- who had neither the money or means to publish them widely, and had to settle for meager runs of multi-hued collotypes....that nobody really appreciated or wanted in the end. I dedicate these 25 slots on flickr to those lost, nameless souls of Japan whose eyes and cameras saw something more meaningful in the darkness and fog -- and in the patterns of nature and life. I hope you find some as moving or inspiring as I have.

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IRON WORK

nobody@vox.com(MEANMAGENTA) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:02:51 +0000

Original colour photograph printed on matt paper

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Dark and Stormy Night

nobody@vox.com(Little Odd Me) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:23:42 +0000

Thanks to KellyT for her pointers last year on moon photography! :D

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Coe Park Turtles

nobody@vox.com(JamesG) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:13:13 +0000

Several good-sized turtles sun themselves on a log afloat in Berea Lake, Coe Park, Berea, Ohio. Looking in every direction but "up," they seemed oblivious to my looking down with my camera Sept. 14, 2008. Photo by James Guilford.

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Rainbow Web

nobody@vox.com(JamesG) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:56:47 +0000

Dewdrops coating a spider's web create a rainbow effect in the early morning sunlight at Hinckley Lake Sept. 10, 2008. Canon Digital Rebel XT: ISO 400, 1/500 sec., f/6.3, 200mm Canon L zoom lens. Photo by James Guilford.

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Second-Hand Chandelier in San Francisco, 2000

nobody@vox.com(tikitoon) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:07:46 +0000

a very profound study of a kabbalah icon and metaphor. Photoshop to sepia-toned. Ilford 400, Pentax 35mm

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Autumn Leaves in Noe Valley, San Francisco 2000

nobody@vox.com(tikitoon) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:07:45 +0000

Shot this while waiting for the chiropractor to open shop on a rainy November morning, Saturday. Ilford, Pentax 35mm.

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scan0216

nobody@vox.com(Missy) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:14:21 +0000

This is my grandmother (mom's mother), Jane (Ida is her first name. I love it.), when she was a little girl. This is such an awesome photo. Love the hat.

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L a s t t r a i n t o w h e r e v e r

nobody@vox.com(suet proxy) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:44:10 +0000

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Golden Orb Weaver

nobody@vox.com(Little Odd Me) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:44:45 +0000

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Turn off time

nobody@vox.com(Jack Yan) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:22:20 +0000

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a2b34

nobody@vox.com(karlos) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:44:44 +0000

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A2b33

nobody@vox.com(karlos) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:39:38 +0000

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a2b32

nobody@vox.com(karlos) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:45:32 +0000

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