Views of Japan, China and Hong Kong, AGO
This leather-bound volume with pages of thick cardstock was designed to hold photographs roughly 20 x 25 cm. As they travelled, 19th century tourists visited the studios of local photographers and bought from a stock of images. Here, the photographs are organized by place: Japan, China, then Hong Kong. This may suggest an itinerary for the trip or it may simply have been an easy way to organize the photographs, after the fact.
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This album includes 75 photographs made by several photographers, mostly unknown, in Japan, China and Hong Kong during the late 1800s. They depict a variety of architecture and landscape views, as well as scenes of people working and performing rituals. In this selection of 20 images from the album, you will encounter a typical travel album of its day, at a particular moment of cultural upheaval and exchange. Japan, China and Hong Kong only became accessible to merchants and travelers from Europe and North America in the late 19th century. With the traders came photographers, who catered to the tourist appetite for souvenir images.
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