Publisher/東京都写真美術館

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Photographer Imurai Kimura (1901-1974) who has played a central role in Japanese photographic expression throughout the prewar and postwar years. The year after the Great Kanto Earthquake, the company opened an operating photo studio in Nippori in 1924 and participated as a member of the "Yamato photo club" and the "Namiki Shoyukai" where amateur photographers around Asakusa gather. While searching for a new photographic expression, the camera "Raica" played an important role in the modernization of photographic expression, and it was presented in the photo magazine "Light Art" started with Kojima Nojima and Iwata Nakayama in 1932 The snap of Tashitamachi became the foundation as a writer of Kimura. Since then, he has left a large footprint in Japan's photographic history, including the development of the "Realism Photography Movement" with Fumi Domon and the publication of numerous masterpiece photographs. This book is a pictorial record of the exhibition “The World of Kimei Ihei” held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 1992. It will be the first solo exhibition by Tosakumi's collection, and it is an attempt to give a panoramic view of the creative activities of Kimura Ibei (from this book). The material aspect is also enhanced, including pre-war and post-war works, a collection catalog of 500 points in thumbnail format, word lists and bibliography.