Publisher/伊丹市立美術館

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This is a collection of works and exhibition catalog for the Japanese photographer Eiko Yamasawa (1899-1995), titled "Eiko Yamasawa Exhibition." Yamasawa is known as one of Japan's earliest female photographers, and in recent years has been gaining renewed appreciation for her important role in introducing the sensibilities of modernist photography to Japan. In 1926, she traveled to the United States alone and studied under Consuelo Canega, before opening a photography studio for women in Osaka. While working as an extremely pioneering female professional photographer for her time, she traversed a wide range of fields, including commercial photography, portraits, and stage photography. After the war, she developed abstract photography using reflections of light, glass, and metal, exploring photographic expression as a form of art rather than simply recording subjects. This book was published in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition held at the Itami City Museum of Art in 1994, and includes works ranging from pre-war portraits to abstract works and paper collages from her later years. It is an important book not only for the history of female artists in the history of Japanese photography, but also for tracing the flow of modernist photography from the pre-war to the post-war period.