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    The document discusses the influence of Japonism on early French cinema, particularly the works of the Lumière brothers. It notes that Japan opened to foreign trade in 1853 and its art was introduced to the West through exhibitions like the 1867 Paris Exposition. The Lumière brothers patented an early movie camera in 1895 and sent photographers around the world, including to Japan, to capture exotic images. Some of their earliest films from Japan show influences from Japanese artworks like Hokusai's "36 Views of Mount Fuji" in their compositional techniques.

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    Japonisme and the cinema of

    Lumière brothers

    Gabriela Feldman
    Context
    Matthew C. Perry

    Opening of formerly isolated Japan to world


    trade in 1853

    Exposition universelle d’art et d’industrie de


    Paris in 1867

    French art critic Philippe Burty coined


    Japonisme in 1872

    Exposition universelle d’art et d’industrie


    de Paris in 1867

    Lumière brothers
    France s.XIX/XX

    • In 1895 patented an improvement of


    the cinematograph (motion picture
    camara system) already registered a
    year before by Léon Bouly.
    • They sent over a hundred
    cinematographers all over the
    world to capture “exotic” images
    and bring them back to France.

    “Panorama pendant
    l’ascension de la Tour Eiffel”

    https://youtu.be/D6gAGCNNjow
    Composition and
    physiological reaction
    Henri Rivière: “Les trente-six
    vues de la Tour Eiffel”
    1888-1902

    Hokusai: “Les trente-six views of Mount Fuji” Henri Rivière: “Les trente-six vues de la Tour Eiffel”
    1830 1888-1902

    Utagawa Hiroshige
    “100 Views of Edo”
    1850

    Hokusai “36
    Views of Mount
    Fuji”
    1831

    Toulouse-Lautrec
    “The Jockey” Hokusai “ Manga”
    1889
    1815-78

    Saccadic movement
    1878

    Louis Émile Javal 1839-1907


    À traverse effect

    Monet: “Printemps à
    traverse les branches”
    1889

    Japanese imagery
    (Orientalism)

    “Vues Japonaises: Repas en


    famille” (1896) https://youtu.be/a2lYL_P3LS8
    Lumières’
    cinematographers
    in Japan

    Gabriel Veyre
    Constant Girel

    Japanese meal where Girel is performing

    Gozen Meal Time in the Far-East 1873


    “Chanteuse Japonaise”
    Gabriel Veyre 1898-99 “The woman playing the Samisen”
    Charles Wirgman 1885

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