Atago, the snow-covered mountain 雪山,アタゴ

UMESAKA Ori 梅阪鶯里

This appears to be a variant made from the same plate as Snowy Mountain Twilight, a work shown at the third Ginreisha exhibition in May 1930 and published in the November 1930 edition of Shashin geppo. Kometani Koro, who was also a member of Ginreisha, wrote that, “Its seductiveness is due to the rich, full-bodied flavor of the gum-bichromate print, a Ginreisha forte.” Recent research suggests that this work, which hardly seems to be a photograph at all, appears to be the result of reversing light and dark in the negative of a photograph of mountains shot at midday in summer.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Atago, the snow-covered mountain
Original title: 雪山・アタゴ
Artist Name: UMESAKA Ori
Year: 1930
Material / Technique: Gum-bichromate print
Dimensions: 269x393mm
Accession number: 10011020
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