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Cross-cultural Camera: How Photography Helped Bridge East & West – American Museum of Photography Online Exhibition

Cross-cultural Camera: How Photography Helped Bridge East & West – American Museum of Photography Online Exhibition

 

Bertherman Studio (Providence, Rhode Island)

American Girl in Japanese Costume

Gelatine-silver Cabinet Card, circa 1895

Image size 5.5 x 4 inches

In keeping with late Victorian taste this photograph is a riot of conflicting patterns, from the girl’s robe and parasol to the foliage of the potted plants (one of them painted onto the backdrop.)

 

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