Hereditary Japanese samurai in photographs of the 19th century (15 photos)

Historical photographs that vividly tell about the life and life of ordinary Russian people in the 19th century

Old photographs are a real time machine that can take you 100 years or even more back. It is thanks to old photographs that you understand what life was like for people in the distant past. And if you carefully consider the details, then such photographs can tell no less than history textbooks

Old colored photographs about the life of the Japanese in the second half of the 19th century (30 photos)

This collection of photographs from Japan was seen in Europe in 1839 with the light hand of Liu Dareg, a French artist, inventor and one of the creators of photography. These pictures aroused great interest among the public, but there was one "but" - the photographs were black and white, and the Europeans wanted to immerse themselves in a "highly realistic environment." By 1840, coloring photographs had already become common practice and contributed a lot to the development of tourism in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this review, there are old photographs that

25 colored photographs of the 19th century from the Land of the Rising Sun: geisha, samurai and the most ordinary Japanese

British artist Felix Beato arrived in Japan in 1863 and spent over 20 years in that country. He became a pioneer in coloring photographs, and his work is valuable and unique due to the rarity of photographs of Japan during the Edo period - the time of the establishment of the Tokugawa dictatorship and, at the same time, the "golden age" of Japanese literature. The result of his work was 2 volumes of photographs "National Types", which included 100 genre and portrait works, 98 city panoramas and landscapes. In our review there are 25 photos and

28 rare historical snapshots of Japanese everyday life in the late 19th century

Today, most people associate Japan with a frantic pace of life and advanced technologies. But just 100 years ago, the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun lived in bamboo huts and worked on farms tirelessly. This review presents retro photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries with a visual display of the daily life of the Japanese

The very first photographs in the world: 15 unique photographs of the 19th century from the British gallery Tate

An exhibition dedicated to the origins of photography has opened at the Tate Britain in London. In this exhibition, you can see the earliest photographs taken between 1840 and 1860. This review contains the very first photographs that capture the amazing atmosphere of that time and the people who lived at that time