Albumen print from wet collodion negative. An unusually sensitive portrait taken at a time when the samurai class was about to disappear. Despite the edict of 1871 encouraging – but not enforcing – the abandonment of their distinctive topknot and swords, the sitter wears his hair in the traditional style and sports two swords, but is also dressed in full armour. This portrait either pre-dates the 1876 ban on wearing swords in public or was taken immediately afterwards as a keepsake. (theGaurdian)
Actor/director Orson Welles stepping out of taxi in front of Palace Theater with neon lights spelling out "Orson Welles Citizen Kane," New York City, 1941. Photograph: W. Eugene Smith
Promotional still for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane.
RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle.