Plum Garden Kamata, from the book, Elon Edo Miyage, vol. 2 (1850) / “View of The Emperor’s Sporting Quarters, at Odji” (Circa 1853-8)

In the essay we read, He frames a Shot” by Henry Smith, the author made a statement that the angles and forms of compositions Hiroshige undertook escaped the technology of photography at that time. These two images were produced at approximately the same time and feature nearly identical compositional structure. The Hiroshige print on the left is the one evidenced by Smith of what was not possible and the right one by Pierre Rossier in ca. 1853.