Target shooting (by kamomebird)
LOOKING OUT FROM THE SHADOWS of OLD JAPAN
In many ways, this is certainly an odd, yet “arty” portrait from old Meiji-era Japan. The uncommon pose with raised hand….. her being placed against the wall with the window light to her back….. the cameo relief of her tightly-shadowed profile….. the “op-art” lines of her equally unusual kimono, whose patterns seem to reflect the combed lines of her heavily-oiled hair (or even the missing comb itself).
Another lesson in old-time photograph by an unknown Japanese photographer and his unknown model….from over 100 years ago.
