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Provoke
2020-11-23 18:22:06 UTCProvoke was a short lived photo magazine printed in Japan in 1968 - there were only three issues but it set off a spark in Japan. The three volumes have been re-released - I got mine from this photo bookstore in Tokyo. The predominant style is ‘are, Bure, bokeh’ which…
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Issei Suda and Japanese Photography
2020-05-26 01:37:38 UTCOn Memorial Day, today I received ‘78’ Issei Suda’s last photo book = published posthumously. Researching his style he is set apart from the other more famous Japanese photographers of his era. He blossomed late in life and to a certain extent his appreciation is continuing to grow. He was…
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Getting my head around Japanese Photography - Domon Ken
2019-10-30 16:53:05 UTCAfter getting home from Japan, I realized that I didn’t know much about Japanese Photography/Photographers. So I’ve been doing some reading and present some of the things I’ve learned
Domon KenKen Domon was born in 1909 in Sakata, in the North-Western Yamagata prefecture, however his family moved to Tokyo when…