Hitachi: Geishas pouring sake for businessmen
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- Title:
- Hitachi: Geishas pouring sake for businessmen
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Smith, W. Eugene
- Creation Date:
- 1961–1962
- ID Number:
- 2005.056.047.1stview
- File Name:
- 2005.056.047.1stview.jpg
- Transcription:
- Verso has round stamp reading "Photograph by W. Eugene Smith"
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- Japan
tea ceremony
geisha
women workers - Measurement:
- 24.8 x 36.8 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Dark image, looking across a room of people toward the far corner, from the vantage of a seat on the floor. In the center of the frame is a geisha wearing a light-colored kimono in profile, with her right arm extended toward the edge of the image. From the right edge of the image, an arm in a white, western-style men's shirt is reaching to pour something into the geisha's cup. Between them are several small plates and cups. More sets of these plates and cups can be seen in a line extending into the room, implying other diners, though they cannot be clearly seen. Back-to-back with the geisha is another geisha, sitting across some dishes from a man leaning forward with chopsticks. The walls at the far corner have different gridded patterns: the one to the right is checkered in dark and light at the corner and is just dark for the majority of the frame. The wall to the left is a finer grid like a windowpane, with larger white rectangles and fine dark lines between.
- Cite As:
- W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978), Hitachi: Geishas pouring sake for businessmen, 1961–1962. Gelatin silver print, 9 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. (24.8 x 36.8 cm). Gift of Gary Davis, Class of 1976, 2005.056.047.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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