Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword: What photographs "do" in museums / by Elizabeth Edwards
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. A valuable collection. The collectors
  • 2. Visual journeys. Souvenir photography in Japan ; A journey through "Old Japan" ; Beneath the surface
  • 3. Vanishing types. The vanishing type ; Photographing the type ; Anthropometric photographs ; "Historic boards" in the Peabody Museum ; Scientific type photography in Japan
  • 4. Visual salvage. Salvaging Japan ; Museums and visual salvage ; Native types
  • 5. Visualizing the future.