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Japanese Photography

© Mitsutoshi Hanaga. Courtesy of Mitsutoshi Hanaga Project Committee
Culture

How Japan revolutionised art & photography in the ’60s and ’70s

From Angura to Provoke — A new photobook chronicles the radical avant-garde scene of the postwar period, whose subversion of the medium of image making remains shocking and groundbreaking to this day.

Written by: Miss Rosen
Black and white film still showing person in dark cloak walking through snowy courtyard with stone walls and archways.
© Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation
Culture

Daido Moriyama’s first four photobooks to be published in English for the first time

Quartet — A new anthology collates Japan, A Photo Theater, A Hunter, Farewell Photography and Light and Shadow, alongside journal entries and memoranda.

Written by: Isaac Muk
Crowded urban street at night, people gathered on platforms of train station, silhouettes and shadows cast, focus on central figure in motion.
© Murai Tokuji, Courtesy of Murai Eri
Culture

A new documentary explores Japan’s radical post-war photography and arts scene

Avant-Garde Pioneers — Focusing on the likes of Daidō Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eikoh Hosoe and many more, the film highlights the swell of creativity in the ’60s, at a time of huge economic change coupled with cultural tensions.

Written by: Isaac Muk

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