Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto

Start
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
End
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Location
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA)

Tuesday, March 26 - Sunday, August 25, 2013

J. Paul Getty Museum

1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California 90049

The Taishō era (1912–1926) was a brief but dynamic period in Japan’s history that ushered in a modern state with increased industrialization, shifting political parties, radical fashions, and liberal thinking in many areas. However, this era of heightened experimentation ended with the arrival of an international depression, the promotion of ultranationalism, and the country’s entry into what would become the Greater East Asia War.

Reflecting both sides of this dramatic transition, two disparate representations of modern Japan will be displayed together in Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto. Curated by Judith Keller, senior curator of photographs, and Amanda Maddox, assistant curator of photographs, the exhibition includes photographs from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection, the Toyko Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the estate of Hiroshi Hamaya, the Nagoya City Art Museum, and other public and private lenders.

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Images: (right to left): Man in a Traditional Minobashi Raincoat, Niigata Prefecture, 1956. Hiroshi Hamaya (Japanese, 1915–1999). Gelatin silver print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. © Keisuke Katano; A Chronicle of Drifting, 1949. Kansuke Yamamoto (Japanese, 1914–1987). Gelatin silver print. Private collection, entrusted to Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. © Toshio Yamamoto

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