台湾拓殖画帖
A 1918 photographic album titled 台湾拓殖画帖 (Picture Album of Taiwan Colonial Development), compiled by the 台湾拓殖画帖刊行会 and published by the same society, presenting Japanese-era Taiwan through black-and-white photographs. The pictures show unpaved roads lined with trees, a long low brick colonial-style building, a street of modest houses, and a tiled-roof building half hidden by dense foliage. A designer might take from them the plain documentary look of early twentieth-century colonial photography, with its strong tonal contrast, deep shadows and wide streets.
