Hand Colored Photograph
8 月 7th, 2007どっかの教会の物置から出てきたらしいガラススライドの写真を2枚だけ譲ってもらった。
モノクロ写真に着色がしてあって、結構な年代モノのように見える。
独特な雰囲気があってなかなか面白い。状態が良いのか悪いのかよく分からないけど
ガラスのキズや細かいゴミが入ってたりと修正に時間がかかった。
写真には [T.ENAMI. 29,BENTENDORI,YOKOHAMA,JAPAN.] と書かれてたから
名前を調べてみるとエナミ・タモツという名前が出てきた。
「明治期の日本写真集」という出版物を残してるからおそらくこの人だろう。
出版が18??から見ると19世紀前後の写真って事になりそう。
Hand Colored Photographic Images of Meiji Era Japan
ここのphotographの中にT.Enamiがあって、この写真と同一人物っぽい。意外といい値だな・・・
PhotoGuideJapan
ちょこっと紹介文が載ってた。
「1930年代エナミは横浜の弁天通にスタジオを持っていて旅行者に写真を売っていた。」
外人の観光客相手に商売してたみたいだから海外では結構名前が残ってるみたい。
実際に写真を手にしてみて、100年という年を重ねただけこの写真も歳をとってると思うと感慨深いものがある。
経年変化による劣化というテイストはアナログでしか味わえない良さなんだろう。
9 月 14th, 2007 at 5:33:34
T. ENAMI (1895-1929) [Real name: NOBUKUNI ENAMI]. Student/Disciple of famous photographer and collotype publisher, K. OGAWA. ENAMI’s first studio was at No.9 Benten-Dori, from April 1892 - September 1, 1923. After 1923 Earthquake, temporary studio erected at No. 2-41 Benten-Dori. Prior to 1929, established final studio at No.29 Benten-Dori. After T. ENAMI’s death in 1929, first son TAMOTSU ENAMI took over the studio. [NOTE: T. ENAMI is not TAMOTSU ENAMI. “T” for father and son’s name is a coincidence. The T of T. ENAMI most likely stood for TOSHI, nickname reading of first character NOBU of real name NOBUKUNI. T. ENAMI only appears in Romanized Japanese, and was used as his business and photographer name. his clientèle consisting primarily of foreigners . His real name spelled out in full in Japanese name order, ENAMI NOBUKUNI, only appears in Japanese characters in the documents that show it]. First son TAMOTSU (1892-1969) was not a photographer. He was photo-finisher for amateurs and professionals, especially tourists passing through Yokohama. He also did a large business in the continued sale of his father’s photographs taken prior to 1929. Most Japanese subject images (such as the three you posted above) were taken by T. ENAMI. The “No.29 BENTENDORI YOKOHAMA” labels on the slides indicates that they were printed by his son, TAMOTSU, between 1929 - 1945. In 1945, the Studio was destroyed in the American fire-bombing of WW2. TAMOTSU survived the war, and remained a photo-finisher until his death in 1969. Although T. ENAMI produced souvenir photo albums and other formats, his 1895-1915 Stereoviews (and Lantern-slides made from them) became the most widely reproduced Meiji-era images of any Japanese Photographer. ― Research by Rob Oechsle; full story published in Terry Bennett’s OLD JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS: COLLECTORS’ DATA GUIDE (Quaritch, 2006)