Old Asia Photography

The Sentaro Daguerreotype


Ref: DAGUERREOTYPE
Author: Terry Bennett & Sebastian Dobson
First Japanese to be Photographed
​Taken in California at least two years before Commodore Perry's historic mission opened Japan to the outside world, this is the first known photograph of a Japanese subject.

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