Japan's modern divide : the photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto

Publication Data

• Title Japan's modern divide : the photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
• Alternative Title Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
• Contributors Hiroshi Hamaya, Kansuke Yamamoto, Judith Keller, Amanda Maddox, Kōtarō Iizawa, Ryūichi Kaneko, Jonathan M. Reynolds, Dinah Berland, J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publisher J. Paul Getty Museum
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Los Angeles, California
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Mar. 26-Aug. 25, 2013.

Contents

Innovation in the 1930s: the early works of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto / Kōtarō Iizawa
Hiroshi Hamaya's snow country: a return to "Japan" / Jonathan M. Reynolds
The locus of sadness: protesting the new Japan / Judith Keller
Plates 1-50 Hiroshi Hamaya
Plates 51-102 Kansuke Yamamoto
The position of Kansuke Yamamoto: reexamining Japan's modern photography / Ryūichi Kaneko
Five poems by Kansuke Yamamoto / translated by John Solt
Disobedient spirit: Kansuke Yamamoto and his engagement with surrealism / Amanda Maddox
Selected chronology of Hiroshi Hamaya
Selected chronology of Kansuke Yamamoto.

Topics

• Hamaya, Hiroshi, 1915-1999 :: Exhibitions
• Yamamoto, Kansuke, 1914-1987 :: Exhibitions
• Hamaya, Hiroshi, 1915-1999
• Yamamoto, Kansuke, 1914-1987
• Photography :: Japan :: History :: 20th century :: Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic :: History :: 20th century :: Exhibitions
• Japan :: Social life and customs :: 20th century :: Pictorial works :: Exhibitions
• Japan

Japan's modern divide : the photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. ISBN 9781606061329. Published by J. Paul Getty Museum in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.