Introduction to the History of Photography

  Young ladies by a pond, Japan (1907)   from the book In Lotus Land (1910) In lotus-land Japan (1910) http://www.archive.org/details/inlotuslandjapan00pontrich Herbert Ponting Mount Fuji This photograph is the opening image of Ponting’s ‘Japanese Studies’ collotyped by K. Ogawa F.R.P.S. in Tokyo in 1906. It is accompanied by a quote from a Wordsworth poem: ‘A distant mountain’s head, Strewn with snow smooth as the sky can shed, Shines like another sun.’   http://images.rgs.org/search.aspx?keyword=S0010741        http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/ogawa/ogawa_ponting.shtml FUJI SAN photographed by Herbert G. Pontingpublished by K. Ogawa, 1905   The Great wall of China (1907) Ponting expanded his photographs of Japan into a 1910 book, In Lotus-land Japan. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). His flair for journalism and ability to shape his photographic illustrations i...