Reflecting modern Japan:
photobooks from the post-war period

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #6, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #6, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #5, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #5, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #8, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #8, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #12, 1968. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #12, 1968. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #13, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #13, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #17, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #17, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #32, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #32, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

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  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #37, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

  Photograph by Hosoe Eikoh: Kamaitachi #37, 1965. © Hosoe Eikoh

The display focuses on three recently acquired photobooks by leading Japanese photographers of the post-war period: Tōmatsu Shōmei (born 1930), Hosoe Eikoh (born 1933) and Homma Takashi (born 1962).

Photobooks are sequences of pictures bound together to tell a story. The three featured in this display are shown together with contextual images from the archives of The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s leading newspaper. Each pair of images explores a key theme of everyday life in post-war and contemporary Japan.

The images featured in the slideshow are all taken from Hosoe Eikoh's photobook Kamaitachi, just one of the featured books in the display.

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