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JAPAN / Tokyo: Things
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday September 13 2015

MOMAT - National Museum of Modern Art
3-1 Kitanomaru-koen, Chiyoda-ku
102-8322 Tokyo
Japan

Rethinking Japanese Photography and Art in 1970s

In the 1970s, “things” emerged as a keyword in the Japanese photography world.

The photographer Nakahira Takuma, who had begun to express his dissatisfaction with existing photographic aesthetics in the late ’60s, grew critical of the so-called “rough, blurred, and out of focus” method he had used up until that point. Changing tact, Nakahira adopted an approach that recalled an “illustrated botanical dictionary,” and marked a return to the documentary nature of the medium. In the process of making this switch, Nakahira repeatedly focused on the relationship between things and photography.

In addition to Nakahira, this exhibit examines the circumstances surrounding things and photography by focusing on the work of Ohtsuji Kiyoji, who brought a unique perspective to the same theme, as well as art of the period.

© Modem