Oberlin, OH
In 1908, photographer Arnold Genthe (1869–1942) spent six months in Japan, taking pictures of its people and landscapes. This exhibition presents a selection of Genthe’s photographs from that visit, from idyllic natural vistas, historic sites, and bustling street scenes to portraits of members of an Ainu community on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, then a remote frontier of the growing Japanese empire. The photographs capture Japan at a time of dynamic social and technological development, an aspect the artist seems to downplay in his beautiful and serene images.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.
Oberlin, OH