Ca.1897-1900 T. ENAMI Glass Slide from a Stereoview. Enami the artist was also Enami the documentary maker. He photographed many labor and factory scenes like this. Here's another example of many on this photostream : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/3286612006/ ********************************************** HAPPY 150TH, T. ENAMI ! FEBRUARY 17, 2009. SESQUICENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. In honor of T. Enami’s 150th Birthday, the above is a one of a large SLIDE SHOW of his old images of long-gone JAPAN from the Okinawa_Soba Archives. These Feb 17, 2009 posts are in addition to the many other T. ENAMI slide, print, and stereoviews already uploaded to flickr in 2008. They can all be found in the COLLECTION and SETS dedicated to Enami’s photographic labors in Japan : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/collections/7215761388... Born in 1859, Enami, whose real name was NOBUKUNI ENAMI (or, in Japanese name order, ENAMI NOBUKUNI) was a “photographer's photographer” who since the 1880s plied his trade as an apprentice and assistant photographer in his youthful 20s, until he died at age 70 in 1929. His own studio, established in Yokohama in 1892 when he was 33 years old, passed to his son who carried on as a commercial photo processor and publisher of his father’s photographs. When the studio was “closed forever” by the fire-bombings of WW2, it had been in continual existence for 53 years—one of the longest running studios to come out of Japan’s old Meiji era. Recognized by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC as one of the most artistic contributors to their Magazine during its first 100, a "Lost Archive" of his images is now here on flickr for the enjoyment and appreciation of all who love old images of Japan. Here’s a look at the outside of his Meiji-era studio : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2413137039/ And an unusual view of workers on the inside : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2494892753/ A better look at Enami and his photographic accomplishments are found at this Web page on the site dedicated to him (and don’t forget to scroll down for more pictures!) : www.t-enami.org/services Now, back to this flickr “Birthday Bash” for old Enami…
