- Kusakabe Kimbei
Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部 金幣|) (1841 — 1934) was a
Japan esephotographer . He usually went by his given name, Kimbei, because his clientele, mostly non-Japanese-speaking foreign residents and visitors, found it easier to pronounce than his family name.Kusakabe Kimbei worked with
Felice Beato andBaron Raimund von Stillfried as a photographic colourist and assistant before opening his own workshop inYokohama in 1881 in theBenten-dōri quarter, and from 1889 operating in theHonmachi quarter. He also opened a branch in theGinza quarter ofTokyo .Around 1885, he acquired the negatives of Felice Beato and of Stillfried, as well as those of
Uchida Kuichi . Kusakabe also acquired some ofUeno Hikoma 's negatives of Nagasaki.He stopped working as a photographer in 1912-1913.
Most of his albums are mounted in accordion fashion.
Gallery
References
* Bennett, Terry. "Early Japanese Images" (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1996), 50.
* [http://www.cca.qc.ca/collectionenligne/fiches/fiches15.asp?ID=Kusakabe%2C+Kimbei&origineObject=PH1981:0956&ficheType=2&langue=2 Canadian Centre for Architecture; Collections Online, s.v. "Kusakabe, Kimbei"] . Accessed 3 April 2006.
* [http://www.museeniepce.com/book3.php?folder_code=63 Musée Nicéphore Niépce; Collection du musée Niépce. "Thé/Laque/Photographie"] . Accessed 3 April 2006.
* [http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/list.php?req=1&target=Kinbei Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period: "Kusakabe, Kinbei"] . Accessed 30 May 2008.
* Turner, Jane, ed. "The Dictionary of Art", vol. 18 (New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996), 534.
* [http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=kusakabe&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500071820 Union List of Artist Names, s.v. "Kimbei, Kusakabe"] . Accessed 3 April 2006.External links
* I Photo Central. [http://www.iphotocentral.com/search/result_list.php/256/Kusakabe+Kimbei Kusakabe Kimbei] . A selection of photographs by Kusakabe. Accessed 30 May 2008.
* [http://www.art-antiques.ch/exhibitions/2003/photograph/artist/Kimbei/index.html Bachmann Eckenstein Art & Antiques; "Asia Through the Lens", "Kusakabe Kimbei"] . Accessed 20 January 2007.
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