Photography

In Chapter 19, "Winter Photography" Robinson writes about the difficulty of taking photos in the cold white months... " the fear of rheumatism, neuralgia, colds, fevers, and the multitudinous ills to which suffering humanity is subject from fall of temper...  

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A winter morning in the Bois de Boulogne (a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris). A man dressed as a Pierrot (a stock male character in French pantomime) has been mortally wounded in a duel. A surgeon, dres... 

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I guess the ability to capture and represent the different moods of a snow scene has improved since 1896 ; )

小島 一郎 (Ichirō Kojima - 1924~1964) from Aomori Prefecture... served the war effort in China during World War II, returning to Aomori, in 1946 he helped out in the family photographic equipment business. Kojima participated in an amateur photography group (...  

...and I was so taken with it I saved it. I then looked at many more of his pictures and I can see why you like them so much. He certainly captured the bleakness of winter perfectly. You can almost feel how cold it is. Regards Kev.

I just ordered his only photo book JPY 4,180 (including tax and delivery). I was surprised that it was shown as available on Amazon JPN... not 100% convinced that Amazon can deliver... we'll see. Casey

It looks like Kojima bleached out the area around the middle person's head, and he was known to print the sky darker than exposed. The sky looks to be reworked with sandpaper ; ). The second photo is a nice composition as well, but I could only find a ver...