Photo Cinema reproduct lens [Mu-Yichi-Kyo]
Founded in January 2012
Photo Cinema reproduct lens [Mu-Yichi-Kyo]
Founded in January 2012
In the past, the practice of manufacturing optical assets designed in Europe in Tokyo was called "exoticism" in old terms. It's become a dead word in today's world, where foreign products are commonplace. Exoticism requires certain conditions: something distant and ambiguous. Therefore, exoticism was almost nonexistent in countries along the Silk Road, where foreign goods were constantly flowing. It also wasn't present in India or China, where there was a strong sense of self-centrism. At both ends of the Eurasian continent, people were constantly imagining faraway regions, and their fantasies were precisely what constituted exoticism. Genuine goods were not exoticism. Exoticism was the interpretation and transformation of incomprehensible foreign cultures.
There was a longing for the Orient in Europe. This was called Orientalisme. It reflected the image of the Orient drawn by Westerners. It was not something that came from the East, but something that was born in the West. I have tried to express what would happen if an Easterner reinterpreted it through four types of Luts.
In the examples below, unless otherwise noted, the opacity is 100%. We have taken care to ensure that the balance is not lost even when the effect is diluted.
With the image editing app "Affinity" and the video editing app "DaVinci Resolve" now available for free, anyone with a computer can now apply Luts.
Eugène Delacroix
"Women of Algiers"
In Europe, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac languages began to be taught at universities from around the early 1300s. As Christian missionaries began to travel around the world, information gradually began to be brought to the world, and eventually the Arabian Nights (Tales of One Thousand and One Nights) was translated and published in 1704.
The characteristic colors of the Oriental world as perceived by Europeans were red with a base of indigo and ochre.
* Opacity 100% (please adjust to a lower percentage for actual use).
Francois Boucher
"Makeup"
A symbolic Chinese influence was white porcelain, whose distinctive cold white (cold blue) allowed the surrounding yellow and blue to stand out.
* Opacity 100% (please adjust to a lower percentage for actual use).
Alfred Stevens " Parisian Girl in Kimono"(Left)
James McNeill Whistler "The Princess of the Land of Roses, Silver and Porcelain"(Right)
With the start of the Meiji era and the flourishing of civilization, Japan exhibited at the Paris World's Fair in 1878. Ukiyo-e was one of the works that shocked Europeans. The earliest ukiyo-e were painted with a brush, but prints were later used for mass production. At first, they were made in one color, black rubbed. Soon, color was adopted, and a system of division of labor was established, resulting in the creation of many works.
Kitagawa Utamaro "The Five Wives of the Taiko Travelling Around Kyoto"
The hair is drawn with great delicacy, and the lines become clearer in the print.
(The bokeh has a harder texture than the U3+5.)
* Opacity 50% (100% is monochrome)
Alphonse Mucha
"Reverie"
Art Nouveau is derived from the name of a Japanese art store that opened in Paris in 1895. It is a style that incorporates more European originality than Japonisme.
* Opacity 100% (please adjust to a lower percentage for actual use).
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