The Japanese Photobook, 1912–1990
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (683 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3958291767 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has designed and edited extensive surveys of German, Soviet and Japanese photobooks. As the former curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, he oversaw the development of the institution’s collection. Over the past 45 years Kaneko has amassed a formidable private collection of more than twenty thousand volumes, magazines and catalogues. About the AuthorRyuichi Kaneko is the leading historian of Japanese photobooks. As a scholar, he has been an important advocate in supporting the scholarship and study of Japanese photography
As a scholar, he has been an important advocate in supporting the scholarship and study of Japanese photography and photobooks.Manfred Heiting is a designer and editor of photo publications and a collector of photobooks focusing on the period between 1886 and 1980. Heiting is currently working on surveys of Czech and Dutch photobooks.. As the former curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Phot
Then followed a new beginning: with the unique self-determination of a young generation of photographers and visual artists highlighted by the Provoke style--an experimental Japanese photography magazine that had a profound effect on the medium in the 1970s and ‘80s--as well as protest and war documentation of the late 1950s to the early ‘70s, the signature Japanese photobook, as we have come to know it, was born.Edited by Manfred Heiting, who has also designed and edited extensive surveys of German and Soviet photobooks, the volume is over 500 pages and features such photographers as Yoshio Watanabe, Akira Hoshi, Hayao Yoshikawa, Shinichi Kato, Yasuo Wakuda, Tetsuo Kitahara, Moriyama Daido, Koji Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Yutaka Takanashi, Kimura Ihei, Hamaya, Katura, Kazano, Kikuti, Mituzumi, Watanabe, Yamahata, Sozo Okada and Kazano Karuo, among many others.With detailed information and illust