Juan José de Jesús Yas
Juan José de Jesús Yas | |
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![]() Yas in the 1890s. | |
Born | 1846 |
Died | 1917 |
Occupation | Photographer and translator |
Juan José de Jesús Yas (1856 - 1917), born Kohei Yasu, was a Japanese-born photographer who established himself in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala and documented that city toward the end of the 19th century and early 20th century.
Biography[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Manueldejesusyas3.jpg/200px-Manueldejesusyas3.jpg)
Yas and his wife on their wedding day.
Yas arrived to Guatemala as translator of the famous Mexican astronomer Covarrubias and he liked photography so much, that he became a student of German professor Herbruger.[1]
Death[]
Died in Antigua Guatemala in 1917.
See also[]
Notes and references[]
References[]
- ^ "Yas". Fotofest. 2012. Archived from the original on May 15, 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- Escobar, José Luis (18 June 2017). "El legado fotográfico de Juan José de Jesús Yas". Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
External links[]
Media related to Juan José de Jesús Yas photographs at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1846 births
- 1917 deaths
- Guatemalan photographers
- Guatemalan historians
- Guatemalan male writers
- People from Sacatepéquez Department
- People from Iwate Prefecture
- Japanese emigrants to Guatemala