Gently Posed Photos of Everyday Life in Late-19th-Century Rural Japan

[Kablooie]

The J. Paul Getty Museum has digitized an album called Japanese Trades, which contains a set of these souvenir photos by Suzuki Shinichi, captioned in English by an unknown hand. The images date to between 1873 and 1883 and represent Japanese villagers going about their daily lives: selling rat poison, practicing archery, playing with their children, regarding the approach of a dentist with grim apprehension.




Original Article:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2016/01/14/history_of_rural_japan_photos_of_everyday_life_posed_and_arranged_by_suzuki.html

Getty Museum link to the photos:
http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/31773/shinichi-suzuki-japanese-1835-1919/

[yuiyoshida]

1. I HAVE seen these before...

they are really wonderful !

[Kablooie]

2. Except the photos with the baby are pretty creepy.

I guess because they had to hold still for each photo they couldn't use a real child so they used a strange, creepy looking doll instead.