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Japanese Photography Today and Its Origins

c 200 b/w photos. For an exhibition in Italy, Brussels, and ICA London. Text on Japanese culture by Isabella Doniselli. Work by Japan's best contemporary photographers such as Eikoh Hosoe, Shiotni and Shoji Ueda. Begins with a history from the 19th Century to the crescendo of photographic activity in the 1960s/ 70s often named 'the sound of eleven million shutters clicking'
Japanese Photography Today and Its Origins is a comprehensive photographic work published in 1979 to accompany a touring exhibition in Italy, Brussels, and London. The book features approximately 200 black and white photographs by some of Japan's most significant contemporary photographers, including Eikoh Hosoe, Teikō Shiotani, and Shōji Ueda. It includes text on Japanese culture written by Isabella Doniselli and Attilio Colombo. The publication provides a historical overview of Japanese photography from the 19th century through the peak of photographic activity in the 1960s and 1970s, often characterized as 'the sound of eleven million shutters clicking.'

Bibliographic Details

Author Attilio Colombo
Publisher Galleria d'arte moderna
Place of publication Bologna
Year 1979
Edition First edition
Binding Softcover
ISBN 0906333067
Collation 188 pp.
Language English
Dimensions 20x20
Availability Out of stock