Reflecting on modern Japan

Until 10 August 2008

Room 3
Admission free

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

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.

 object in focus  The Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading national newspaper

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