La Peche Miraculeuse. Izu, Japon (The Miraculous Catch. Izu, Japan)

"La Pêche Miraculeuse, Izu, Japon" (The Miraculous Catch, Izu, Japan) from 1939 depicts fishermen on the Izu Peninsula — Japan's rugged coast southwest of Tokyo — in a scene that combines the everyday labor of fishing with the miraculous abundance suggested by the title. Jacoulet's Japanese subjects are fewer than his Pacific and Korean works, and this fishing scene has a particular visual warmth: the bodies engaged in physical labor, the sea's light on the water, the human drama of the catch.