JAPAN

Photo Book with Accompanying

Vinyl Album (33 1/3 RPM)

Photos and Text By: Lennox and Catherine Tierney

Copyright: None listed, but this is Circa 1959 from the information about Japan contained in the text.  For instance: “…the population has literally exploded, jumping from 34,810,000 in 1872 to the present figure of nearly 94,000,000.”

Published By: International Communications Foundation

“A non-profit foundation established to promote better understanding between nations of the world”

This vintage Hard Cover book, with accompanying Vinyl Album, is in extremely good condition inside and out.  This is a very rare book/record combo.  I cannot find another listed anywhere online.  I have found the record listed separately, but not the book.

Wilshire Boulevard, in Beverly Hills, California, looks much different today than it did whenever this book was published.  I looked up the address listed of 9033 Wilshire and compared photos in the 1950s to today.  I do not know if this company (non-profit) still exists, but if it does it is no longer at that listed address.

Back page reads:

Phono Books in the series now available or in preparation include: Nepal, Iran, Japan, Yugoslavia, The Philippines, Spain, Thailand, Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Hong Kong, Turkey, and Pakistan

Extremely collectible in Fantastic vintage condition!

About Author / Photographer:

Patrick Lennox Tierney (January 28, 1914 – June 12, 2015) was a Japanologist academic in the field of art history, an emeritus professor of the University of Utah, a former Curator of Japanese Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, a former Director of the Pacific Asia Museum, and a former Commissioner of Art and Monuments during the Allied occupation of Japan (1945–1952).

In the fall of 2007, the Japanese government acknowledged Tierney's life's work by conferring the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, which represents the third highest of eight classes associated with this award. Accompanying the badge of the Order was a certificate explaining the award as recognition of the extent to which Tierney has "contributed to introducing Japanese fine arts." The efforts of a lifetime have assisted in the propagation of better understanding of traditional Japanese culture in the United States. His visits to Japan every year have cumulatively contributed to exchanges in the art field between the United States and Japan. He turned 100 in January 2014, and died in 2015 at the age of 101.

Fantastic Vintage gift for photographer in your life or vintage Japanese book collector!!!!!

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