Kusakabe KIMBEI (1841-1934)
Kusakabe KIMBEI (1841-1934)
Japanese tattoo
Print on watercolor albumen paper, circa 1870- 1880
25 x 19,5 cm
Japanese photographer, he was the colorist and assistant of Felice Beato and Baron Raimund Von Stillfried before opening his own studio in 1881. He specialized in picturesque genre scenes and portraits, notably his series devoted to the Samurai and the Yakuzas.
Reproduced page 38 in Obsession masculin, éditions Flammarion.
