Tag: far east exposure

Kansuke Yamamoto :: Buddhist Temple’s Birdcage, 1940. © Toshio Yamamoto.
Collection of Nagoya City Art Museum.

(Suppression of free speech by the power of the state.)
This work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 26–August 25, 2013 . Los Angeles. This work was exhibited in the exhibition “Object・Japan 1920-70s” at the Urawa Art Museum from November 17 2012 to January 20 2013./ src: Toshio Yamamoto

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Teikō Shiotani :: Seashore of Akasaki Minatomachi, Kotoura, Japan, 1931 / source: Tottori Prefectural Museum

The horizon in this picture describes an arc just as if describing the globe itself. Incorporating the technique of deformation, the work was made by burning a negative image onto warped printing paper. The photograph was taken at the coast of Akasaki near photographer Shiotani’s home in Kotoura, Tottori. [quoted from source]

Teikō Shiotani :: Birds-eye view of the village, Shimane Peninsula, Japan, 1925 / src: Shimane Art Museum

Shiotani Teiko was a photographer who was representative of the era from the end of the Taishô period to the Shôwa period, in which pictorialism photography prospered. […]
It is an avant-garde expression that incorporates the cubism manner,
with the roofs of houses standing on steep slopes pointing in various
directions. [quoted from source]