Photos: Geisha - The Golden years at Resobox Gallery

Good afternoon!

Here are some photographs from our opening reception at the Resobox Gallery in Queens, which we blogged about yesterday. 

Attendants included the Consulate General of Japan, Masakazu Kigure, as well as several Japanese artists and media reporters. Patrons enjoyed sake and Japanese delicacies, and a wonderful ceremonial tea ritual was performed throughout the evening by Japanese Tea Master Souheki Mori of Tea Whisk in New York.

The Burns Archive would like to thank founders Fumio Tashiro and Takashi Ikezawa for exhibiting our historical photographs. We hope you stop by and enjoy the space.

Opening Reception for Geisha – The Golden Years 1870-1890

Join us tonight! November 12, 2012 7:00-9:00PM

A ritual tea ceremony will be performed by a Japanese Tea Master at the reception.

The Resobox Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of nineteenth century hand-colored photographs of Geisha and Maiko from the Burns Archive. These photographs are the original images used by Dr. Stanley Burns and his daughter Elizabeth to create their noted book Geisha: A Photographic History: 1872-1912. The images in this exhibition showcase the best of Japanese photographs that were made to show the perceived exotic nature of Japan to the West. Several of the great early photographers’ studios are represented, including Kusakabi Kimbey, Ogawa Kazumasa and Baron von Stillfried.

The opening was originally scheduled for November 2nd but rescheduled for tonight due to weather events (like hurricanes... P.S. We are all OK!).

The gallery is readily accessible from Manhattan. Take the 7 or N train or E or F to Queensboro Plaza. The gallery is on 27th Street, less than a half a block from the elevated line station. 

Resobox

41-26 27th St. 

Long Island City, NY 11101

ph: 718.784.3680

http://resobox.com/112-new-exhibition-opening-party-geisha-the-golden-years-1870-1890/