“Orphans Negatives” is a personal collection of negatives and silver-gelatine prints of anonymous photographers, found throughout the years in several European bazar, on the network and even in the garbage.
This selection is part of an album that contains a hundred medium format negatives by an anonymous Japanese photographer. Inside the album are present notes about the characters and places shown in the photos.
Black and withe negatives / 6 x 6cm / Date _ 1930-1940
Mount Yokote
Ushitaki
Ushitaki (name of an area of Kishiwada-shi in the province of Osaka).
Ushitaki
Akame 48 taki
Mr Iwamoto. Mountain retreat of the Ministry of Railways
Fukushima Nishidoori (name of a Osaka neighborhood)
Lens test
My father in Ryugan (Takarazuka city, Hyogo).
In front of my house. Departure to Beppu (Ōita Prefecture)
Water reserve in Kobe (Kobesuido Sengari Suigenchi)
Urae (name of a Osaka neighborhood), behind the theater Shuten
Mr Inosuke Kishida at the theater
Towa Nishimura at the theater
Mr Meigetsu at the theater
Mr Shimayo at the theater
Ushitaki
Ushitaki
Party for Eiki Shigeyoshi in a Osaka restaurant
Mr Shigeyoshi Eiki in his office
Mr Ikuo Yorio at home
Akame 48 taki
Mount Katsuragi
The forest atop Mount Katsuragi
Akame 48 taki, upper stream
Akame 48 taki
Akame 48 taki
Akame 48 taki. Hiking, from Akame 48 taki to Kaochidani (in the province of Mie)
Akame 48 taki
Kaochidani (province of Mie)
Kaochidani (province of Mie)
Shibutoge
Shibutoge
Mountain retreat of the Ministry of Railways (Shigakogen)
Mr Kozeki in Shigakogen Maruike (province of Nagano)
Mr Yorio
Shibutoge downstream
Shibutoge
Baths of Kumanoyu
Shibutoge
Mount Shirane viewed from the top of Shibutoge
On the top of Shibutoge