Masterpieces of Japanese Pictorial Photography
Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2011. Softcover. Duotone-illustrated card wraps. French flaps. 238 + xxxiv pp. with mostly duotone illustrations throughout. NF with one small scuff to back cover. Item #144328
Most text in Japanese but with essays and photo titles/artists' names in English. Exhibition catalogue from March - May 2011. "Some 120 of the most celebrated images shot by Japanese photographers from the late 1800s through the 1930s are combined with an equally impressive collection of related illustrations and documents. Of particular interest are works by members of the "expressionist" school championed by Kenkichi Nakajima following the devastating Kanto Earthquake of 1923. These artists (Sakae Tamura, Jiro Takao, Teiko Shiotani, Shin Sato, Senka Honda, Shotaro Ozeki) were fond of radically retouching their prints with oil, pencil, paint and other substances, often to the point of unrecognizability - with fascinating results." (from Artscape Japan).
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