Russian-Japanese war in photos of the Imperial Headquarters . Releases 7 - 13.

Russian-Japanese war in photos of the Imperial Headquarters . Releases 7 - 13.
Tokyo. Publisher K. Ogawa. 1904 26-27 photos per issue. Hardcover, size 25.5 x 37 cm. Official full-length photographs of the "Photographic Department of the Imperial Headquarters", including 25 x 61 cm foldout inserts. In English and Japanese. Very good preservation, scuffed binding.

Publisher Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) is considered a pioneer in the development of photography and photomechanical printing in Japan. In 1882-84, Ogawa studied portrait photography technology in Boston, as well as glass printing at the albert company. On his return to Japan in 1884, he opened a photography Studio in Tokyo. In 1888, he founded a company that produces plates for use by photographers. Soon he opened the first business in Japan for the production of collotypes - "K printing house". Ogawa". At the same time, he became the editor of Shashin Shinpō, the only periodical devoted to photography at that time, as well as the magazine Kokka ("national flower"). He printed both magazines using the collotype process.

In addition, Ogawa was one of the founders of the Japanese photographic society. In 1891, he took 100 photos of Tokyo's most attractive geisha. Exquisite collotypes of Ogawa flowers are the frontispiece for Frank Brinkley's Japan series (1896). Some of Kazumasa's work is preserved at the Rijksmuseum and the Getty Museum.