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A list of books and articles on vintage Japanese photography
A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan 
Melissa Banta & Susan Taylor 
Peabody Museum Press, Wellesly College Museum 
1988
 
Suspending Time: Life - Photography - Death 
Geoffrey Batchen 
Izu Photo Museum 
2010 
 
Felice Beato et l'ecole de Yokohama 
Hélène Bayou 
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris 
1994 
 
Views of Japan: Photographs by Felix Beato 
Aperture, Number Ninety 
Sol Benjamin 
1983
 
Early Japanese Images 
Terry Bennett 
Charles E. Tuttles Company, Inc 
1996
 
History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844-1879
Terry Bennett
Quaritch
2013

History of Photography in China Western Photographers 1861-1879 
Terry Bennett 
Quaritch 
2010 
 
History of Photography in China 1842-1860 
Terry Bennett 
Quaritch 
2009 
 
Japan and The Graphic
Terry Bennett
Global Oriental
2012

Japan and The Illustrated London News: 1853-1899
Terry Bennett
Global Oriental
2006

John Thomas Gulick (1832-1923): Pioneer  Photographer in Japan
Terry Bennett
http://www.old-japan.co.uk/articles.html
2011
 
Old Japanese Photographs - Collectors' Data Guide
Terry Bennett
Quaritch
2006
 
Photography in Japan: 1853-1912
Terry Bennett
Tuttle
2006
 
Pierre Joseph Rossier, photographe: une memoire retrouvee
Terry Bennett, Gerard Bougarel, David Collin
Pro Fribourg
2006
 
Shimooka Renjo and the Mystery G.A.B. Stereoview Series
Terry Bennett, Rob Oechsle
Stereo World
2014
 
The Search for Rossier 
Terry Bennett 
Stereo World Volume 32, Number 4 
2007
 
Japanische Photographie 1860-1929 
Festspiele Berliner 
Argon Verlag 
1993 
 
J.B. Millet Company's Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese
Denise Bethel
Image,George Eastman House
Spring/Summer 
1991
 
130 Years Of Tomishige Photo Studio 
Kumamoto Kenritsu Bijutsukan
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum 
1993 
 
La Photographie Japonaise: Sous L'ère Meiji 
Patrick Bonneville 
Les Editions de L'Ameteur - Antiqués Photo Verdeau 
2006 
 
Portraits in Sepia
Torin Boyd, Naomi Izakura
2000
 
A Revised Chronology of Felice (Felix) Beato
Japanese Exchanges in Art 1850s to 1930s
John Clark
Sydney: Power Publications
2001
 
Japan, from Caught in Time: Great Photographic Archives 
Hugh Cortazzi and Terry Bennett 
Garnet Publishing Ltd. 
1995

Once Upon a Time: Visions of Old Japan 
Linda Coverdale 
Friendly Press Inc 
1986 
 
Koshashin: The Hall Collection of 19th Century Photographs of Japan 
Catherine Crowston and Terry Bennett
Art Gallery of Alberta 
2009 
 
Frederick William Sutton, 1832-83: Photographer of the Last Shogun
Sebastian Dobson
Biographical Portraits
Hugh Cortazzi, editor
2002
 
Photography and the Prussian Expedition to Japan 1860-61
Sebastian Dobson
History of Photography
2009
 
Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century
Sebastian Dobson article on Beato
Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing
2004

Lithographs, Drawings & Photographs from the Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860-61
Sebastian Dobson and Sven Saaler
Munchen: IUDICUM Verlag
2011
A Century of Japanese Photography 
John Dower
Japan Photographers Association 
Random House Inc 
1971
 
Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920
Elizabeth Edwards
Yale University Press
1992
 
International Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographers
Gary Edwards
1988
 
Hugues Krafft Au Japon De Meji
Suzanne Esmein
2003

Les premiers ateliers de photographie japonais
Claude Estebe
etudes photographiques
2006
 
Early Japanese Railways, 1853-1914
Dan Free
Tuttle
2008
 
Photography and Japan
Karen M. Fraser
exposures, reaktion books
2011

Early Photographic Business in Asakusa, Japan
Maki Fukuoka
History of Photography, 35.4
2011
 
The Premise of Fidelity
Maki Fukuoka
Stanford University Press
2012
 
The Advent of Photography in Japan 
Yokoe Fuminnori, Motoyasu Hiroshi, Saito Takio, Kinoshita Naoyuki Miki Tamon
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 
Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido 
1997 
 
A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography
Luke Gartlan
Brill
2016

History of Photography: Photography in Nineteenth-century Japan 
Guest Editor, Luke Gartlan 
Taylor and Francis Group 
May 2009 
 
Japan Day by Day? William Metcalf, Edward Sylvester Morse and Early Tourist Photography in Japan 
Luke Gartlan 
Early Popular Visual Culture Volume 8, Issue 2 
2010 
 
Types or Costumes: Reframing Early Yokohama Photography 
Luke Gartlan 
Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 22:3 
2006 
 
Views and Costumes of Japan: A Photograoh Album by Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz 
Luke Gartlan 
The La Trobe Journal 76 
Spring 2005
 
Wilhelm Willmann: An Austrian Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan 1866-74 
Luke Gartlan 
 
Imagine Japan
Marc Olivier Gonseth, Philippe Dallais
Meusee D'Ethnographie, Neuchatel-Suess
2015

Yokoyama Matsusaburo (1838-1884): A Pioneering Experimental Japanese Photographer
Carmen Perez Gonzalez 
PhotoResearcher: ESHPh European Society for the History of Photography Number 15 
2011  
 
Early Photography From The Bakumatsu Through To The Showa Reign 
K. Goto et al 
1986 
 
Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan
Christine Guth
Seattle: University of Washington Press
2004
 
Shashin De Miru Edo Tokyo 
Toru Haga & Masayuki Okabe 
1992
 
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
John Hannavy, editor
Routledge
2008
 
Capturing Japan in Nineteenth-Century New England Photography Collections 
Eleanor M. Hight 
Ashgate 
2011 
 
Felice Beato: Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Selections from the Tom Burnett Collection 
Eleanor M. Hight 
Museum of Art University of New Hampshire 
2011 

Japan as Artefact and Archive: Nineteenth-Century Photographic Collections in Boston
Eleanor Hight 
History of Photography 28:2 
2004
 
The Many Lives of Beato’s “Beauties”
Eleanor Hight
London: Routledge
2002
 
Kusakabe Kinbee: Meiji jidai kara? shashin no kyojin 
(Kusakabe Kimbei: Meiji Period Master) 
Nakamura Hirotoshi 
Kokusho Kanko?kai 
2006 
 
Expectation and Authenticity in Meiji Tourist Photography 
Allen Hockley 
“Challenging Past and Present” edited by Ellen P. Conant 
University of Hawaii Press 
2006 
 
Herinneringen Aan Japan: 1850-1870 
Leijerzapf, Ingeborg Th. & Moeshart, Herman J. 
Gravenhage 
1987
 
Renjo Shimooka: The Pioneer Photographer in Japan
Edited by Keisho Ishiguro
Shinchosha
1999
 
Meiji No Yokohama & Tokyo - Shashin Shu 
Yoshiro Iwasaki 
1989
 
Japan’s Best-Kept Secret: Japanese Ambrotype Portraits
Peter C. Jones
Aperture, 138
1995
 
Shimooka Renjo: A Pioneer of Japanese Photography
Morishige Kazuo
Exhibition Catalogue
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
2014
 
Portraits of the Emperor Meiji
Donald Keene
Impressions, 21
1999
 
Meihi No Nihon - Yokohama Shashin No Sekei 
Yokohama Keiko; Shiryo Kan ed. 
1990 
 
E. S. Morse Collection
Shiro Konishi, Tetsuo O'Hara, Takayo Oshikiri 
Peabody Essex Museum 
1983 
 
Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road 
Anne Lacoste 
J. Paul Getty Museum 
2010
 
Charles Appleton Longfellow, Twenty Months in Japan, 1871-73
Christine W. Laidlaw
Friends of the Longfellow House
1998
 
The Adventure of Japanese Photography 1860-1890
Phillip March and Claudia Delank
Heidelberg: Kehrer
2002

As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States
Masao Miyoshi
Paul Dry Books
2005
 
Arts en koopman in Japan: 1859-1974
Dr. H.J. Moeshart
De Bataafsche Leeuw
2001
 
Hotels 
Ichiroh Morita 
Chikuma Soboh, Tokyo 
1998 
 
Reinventing Tokyo, Japan's Largest City in the Artistic Imagination
Samuel C. Morse, Editor
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
2012
 
The World on a Plate: The Impact of Photography on Travel Imagery and its Dissemination in Britain, 
1839-1888 (Doctorate Thesis)
Charlotte Mullins, Ph.D.
University of Sussex
2012
 
The J.W. Henderson Collection of Japanese Photographs formed 1964-76
David Newman
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox
2000
 
Beato in Japan 
Ina Nobuo, Trans. Takeshi Ozawa 
Image Vol. 36 No.1-2 
George Eastman House 
1993 
 
The Journey of "A Good Type"
David Odo
Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University
2015
 
Unknown Japan: Reconsidering 19th-century Photographs 
David Odo 
Rijks Museum Amsterdam 
Vol. 4
2008 
 
The Later Years of Felice Beato
Colin Osman
The Photographic Journal
1988 
 
New Light on the Beato Brothers
Colin Osman
British Journal of Photography
1987 
 
Shashin De Miru Bakumatsu-Meiji 
Tsuyoshi Ozawa 
Sekaibunkasha 
1990 
 
Felice Beato: Viaggio in Giappone 1863-1877 
Claudia Gabriele Philipp, Dietmar Siegert, Rainer Wick 
Federico Motta Editore 
1991 
 
Wilhelm Burger, Ein Welt-und Forschungsreisender mit der Kamera, 1844-1920 
Gert Rosenberg 
Christian Brandstatter 
1984 

The first commercial photographs of JAPAN
Pierre Rossier
Slideshow Prepared by Pascal Granger and Philippe Dallais
2015
 
The Story of Yokohama Bakumatsu-Meiji Photography Studios
Takio Saito
Tokyo
2004
 
The 30 Year Jubilee of the European Society for the History of Photography 
Fotohof Salburg 
2008  
 
Japanese Ambrotypes 1860-1890 
Charles Schwartz 
Charles Schwartz Ltd. 
2009
 
Old Photography Study
Nagasaki University Library
Kazuo Shibata, editor
2009
 
F. Beato Bakumatsu Japan 
Yokohama Archives of History 
Akashi Shoten 
2006 
 
Souvenirs of Asia: Photography in the Far EAst, 1840-1920 
William F. Stapp 
Image Vol. 37 No. 3-4 
George Eastman House 
1994 
 
Journal of a Voyage The Erwin Dubský Collection: Photographs from Japan in the 1870s 
Filip Suchomel and Marcela Suchomelová 
The Moravian Gallery in Brno 
2006 
 
Bakumatsu: Shashin no jidai 
Ozawa Takeshi 
Chikuma Shobo 
1994 
 
The History of Japanese Photography
Anne Wilkes Tucker
Yale University Press
2003
 
Selling Japan: Kusakabe Kimbei's Images of Japanese Women
Mio Wakita
History of Photography XXXIII, 2
2009

Staging Desires: Japanese Femininity in Kusakabe Kimbei’s Nineteenth-Century Souvenir Photography
Mio Wakita
2013
 
Felice Beato and the First Korean War, 1871
Stephen White
The Photographic Collector
1982
 
Souvenirs from Japan 
Margarita Winkel 
Bamboo Publishing Ltd. 
1991 
 
ArtMachine
Clark Worswick
Midnight Books
2016
 
The Disappearance of Uchida, Kyuichi and the Discovery of Nineteenth-Century Asian Photography 
Clark Worswick 
Image Vol. 36 No. 1-2 
George Eastman House 
1993
Japan: Photographs 1854-1905 
Edited by Clark Worswick, intr. Jan Morris 
Pennwick/Alfred A. Knopf 
1979
 
La leggenda di un impero: Felice Beato and the Yokohama Photography school discovering Japan: 1860-
1900
I. Zannier 
Alinari 
1995 
 
Nihon Shashi Zenshu 1: Shashin No Makuake, Volume 1 
Nihon Shashi Zenshu 
1985 
 
Shashinshu Yomigaeru Bakumatsu 
Tokyo 
1986 
 
The Lau Collection of 19th Century Chinese and Japanese Photographs
Christie’s
1994