Esaki Reiji
Esaki Esaki-cho, Gifu Pref, 1845; Tokyo, June 7, 1910 was a Japanese photographer. He was a student of Shimooka Renjo in 1871. After a short training period, he opened a photo studio in Tokyo the same year, and moved to Asakusa the following year to become one of Tokyo's top portrait studios during the late 19th century.
Esaki Reiji
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- Born
- 1845 · Esaki.
- Died
- 1910
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- photographer · politician
- Languages
- Japanese
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Esaki Esaki-cho, Gifu Pref, 1845; Tokyo, June 7, 1910 was a Japanese photographer. He was a student of Shimooka Renjo in 1871. After a short training period, he opened a photo studio in Tokyo the same year, and moved to Asakusa the following year to become one of Tokyo's top portrait studios during the late 19th century.
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He was the first Japanese photographer to use dry plate negatives which he imported in 1883 and made him a "quick photographer" specializing in family portraits. He succeeded in photographing fireworks in 1889. His photograph of a torpedo explosion in the Sumida River in 1883 became very famous. Another well-known of his photographs is "Collage of Babies: One Thousand and Seven Hundred Children That in Three Years Came to My Shop", ca. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art owns a copy. Reiji also served as a politician in the Asakusa Ward Council and Tokyo City Council.
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Esaki Reidži - „Koláž dětí: Tisíc sedm set dětí, které za tři roky přišly do mého obchodu“, asi 1893.
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1845
Esaki Reiji born at Esaki.
1910
Esaki Reiji died on 28 January 1910.
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