A Career of Japan

Luke Gartlan (PhD 2004) is a lecturer at the School of Art History, University of St Andrews. He is the editor of the peer-reviewed international quarterly History of Photography, and co-editor, with Ali Behdad, of Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (Getty Research Institute, 2013). His research concerns photography and cultural exchange in the nineteenth century, especially with reference to the camera’s role in colonial-era visual culture, histories of travel and exploration, and non-Western responses to photography.

Acknowledgments
Note for the Reader

Introduction: With Argus Eyes
The Death of a Photographer
Objectives and Parameters
Chapter Outline

1. From Dreams to Specters
On the Frontiers of Empire
Maritime and Artistic Education
Military Service and Travels
Serving Emperor Maximilian in Mexico
The Legacy of Querétaro
Empire Lost

2. Changing View s
First Visit to Japan, 1864–65 35
Serving Empire In Absentia
Felice Beato: Mentor and Model?
First Portfolios
An Expatriate Market
The Coming of the Globetrotter

3. “The Mikado Photograph Affair”
Touring Yokosuka Arsenal
Photographing the Emperor
Censoring the Foreigner
The Imperial Commissions
Circulation and Display

4. Picturing Hokkaido
Terms and Duties
The Hokkaido Commission
Views of Hokkaido
The Ainu as Subject
Reprographic Afterlives

5. Sex and Violence in the Tea house
Preparations
At the Vienna World Exposition
A Teahouse for Vienna
Blood Statement

6. A Merchant of Images
Austro-Hungarian Globetrotters
The Rise of the Japan Photographic Association
Toward a Global Enterprise

7. Constructing and Contesting Japan
Four Photographic Albums
Colored Costumes
Masters and Apprentices

8. The Trials of Stillfried
Hermann Andersen and “Stillfried and Andersen”
Professor Stillfried: An Expert Witness and Instructor
The Consular Courts and the Arrival of Franz von Stillfried
A New Series, Painted and Unpainted
Stillfried and the Return to Paints
Conclusion: Visual Histories and Volatile Markets

Afterword: A Prodigal Subject
The Presentation of Self
Exhibiting Asia in Vienna
Rethinking the Travel Photographer

Appendix A
Baron Heinrich von Calice, Jedo [Tokyo], to Count Friedrich von Beust, Vienna. Bericht über eine
Beschwerde gegen Baron Stillfried wegen Aufnahme und Verkauf einer Photographie des Mikado und
daraus entstandene Unzukömmlichkeiten (Report on a Complaint against Baron Stillfried due to the
Taking and Marketing of a Photograph of the Mikado and Any Resulting Inconveniences), 20 January 1872.

Appendix B
[Watanabe Hiromoto], Transcription of an Interview with the Carpenter Genkichi, November–
December 1873, Vienna.

Appendix C
A Brief Timeline of Raimund von Stillfried’s Studios, Associates, and Competitors.

Appendix D
Indenture of Sale of Photographic Goods from Raimund von Stillfried to Franz von Stillfried, United
States Consulate in Yokohama, 6 December 1879.

Glossary of Japanese Terms
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index