Japan and The Graphic
Terry Bennett's latest book 'Japan and The Graphic: Complete Record of Reported Events 1870-1899,' is now available from publishers, Global Oriental at this site:http://www.brill.nl/japan-and-graphic This is a companion volume to the 2006 publication 'Japan and the Illustrated London News.'The ILN and the Graphic were the two most popular periodicals of the Victorian age. Influential, they reflected and shaped the views of their readers. Writing in 1942 about the accumulated issues of the ILN alone, historian Arthur Bryant suggested that they represented '...probably the most important and comprehensive single historical document ever compiled.' Consequently, the Japan reports from both periodicals are an important resource for researchers and scholars of nineteenth-century Japan.

John Gulick (1832-1823) - Pioneer photographer of Japan
Latest research shows that American missionary and scientist, John Gulick, made an important contribution to early Japanese photography, and may well have instructed Shimooka Renjo. Read Terry Bennett's article on Gulick here:http://www.old-japan.co.uk/text-idx.htm

Old Japan Catalogue 35
Old Japan has published its first catalogue in three years. It contains albums by, amongst others, Felix Beato, Usui Shusaburo and Walter Clutterbuck. There is also an amazing collection of 17 mammoth-plate 1867 photographs taken by Charles Weed.

Terry Bennett's 'History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879'
The above book will now be published in early December by Quaritch. It is the second volume in a series on the history of photography in China.

Shimooka & Beato cartes de visite
We recently acquired a collection of Shimooka Renjo and Felix Beato cartes de visite and have added them to the 'photographs for sale' section.