Japanese Realism Photography
リアリズム写真運動 / 1950–1958 / Style / Photography Movements
The postwar Japanese movement Domon Ken led under 'absolutely unstaged, absolute snapshots.' Hiroshima and Children of Chikuho faced society directly, drawing amateur monthly contests into the reconnection of photography and life.
The unstaged principle / Social subjects faced directly / Close wide-angle work / Coarse-grained prints
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Domon Ken's Hiroshima / the Camera magazine monthlies / the contrast with Kimura Ihei