Adolfo Farsari was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. His studio, the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan, was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms.
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Three yūjo (courtesans) posing on an engawa, c. 1885. Hand-coloured albumen silver print
Lacquered album cover by A. Farsari & Co., c. 1890
Woman playing a gekkin, c. 1886. Hand-coloured albumen print on a decorated album page
Gionmachi, Kioto, by Adolfo Farsari, c. 1886. Hand-coloured albumen print
Boys' Festival from the Bluff, Yokohama, by Louis-Jules Dumoulin, 1888. Oil on canvas
Officer's Daughter, 1880s. Hand-coloured albumen silver print
Dai Butsu, Kōtoku-in, Kamakura, Japan, between 1885 and 1890. Hand-coloured albumen silver printArtists born in the 1840s 6
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Adolfo Farsari was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan. His studio, the last notable foreign-owned studio in Japan, was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic firms. Largely due to Farsari's exacting technical standards and his entrepreneurial abilities, it had a significant influence on the development of photography in Japan.
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deceased
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Lived 1841 to 1898 · aged 56
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