Friday, 5 September 2014

Adolfo Farsari - The Man Who Shot Japan

image credit: Yves Tennevin

In the 1880s, at a time when most Europeans were denied access to the Japanese interior, Italian photographer Adolfo Farsari (1841-1898) managed to capture many images of Old Japan. These were then beautifully and realistically hand painted and serve as a remarkable record of a world long since disappeared.

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