Remember that I wrote a piece on Trichromatic Photography, and that Maurice wrote a piece on 3D Images? Well… this is a little something of both. Although, this is not really Trichromatic Photography… it looks like it, so it’s good enough for me.
T. Enami was a stage name of Enami Nobukuni, a Japanese photographer born in 1859. And that’s already cool enough! After the shoot he would colour the photographs himself to get a colored picture. His eye for detail is incredible… when I first saw his work, I thought they were shot like that, in full colour and just faded away over the years.
Actually his work disappeared completely for a long time. And it was only this year that his catalog with stereoview photography was found again. And made public on the internet.
On the very disorganized website you can find the background story on the Enami name and what happened to the studio this man used to run. Or you can just look at the pretty pictures in the gallery below. And on Flickr there is more work.
You have a very beautiful page here ! When you called my own website “very disorganized”, it gave me a good laugh. You are very right about that. Organizing it is not one of my priorities. I just poke at it occasionally. For the moment, it will remain in its state of confused madness. However, don’t worry too much about it. When the book comes out, it will be just the opposite — order and discipline fully guarded by a team of designers and editors !
I like your gallery arrangement above, and your comments are a well written snapshot of Enami. Only two minor corrections :
Only his 2-D Catalog was found this year (listing nearly 1000 images, none of them 3-D). I am still waiting for his possible Stereoview Catalog to appear. Perhaps it will turn up at a flea market, or some other unexpected place.
I am not sure if Enami actually did the coloring on the above views, but he might have. Most commercial photographers like Enami had a staff of colorists dedicated to the job. However, some photographers also did the “master copy” that all the colorists worked from. I suppose I will never know if the views I have (or even some of them) were originally some of those guide prints. In any case, he was apparently demanding of his colorists, as almost all of the work is of high caliber. If not by him, certainly was all under his close direction.
Thanks again for your good work on this page, and, for better or worse, the kind links back to my certified mayhem !
Rob (Okinawa Soba on Flickr)
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