Publisher/東京都写真美術館

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This is a catalog photo book published at the exhibition "Establishment and Development of Modern Japanese Photography" held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 1995. The attempt was made to consider the history of modern photography as a part of the modern history of Japan, and to think about modern photography with the question "what is modernity?" Daido Moriyama once said about the work of his beloved Nakaji Yasui, "I think that Nakaji Yasui already has all the elements of postwar photography and photographers. Higashimatsu Lighting, Ihei Kimura, Ken Domon, Takuma Nakahira If you follow all of Ihei Araki and Moriyama, you will come across what I call the "Nakaji Yasui Mountains". It is a very deep mountain. Nakaji's photographs are the roots of Japanese photography. They are the "father" of Japanese photography. " It can be said that the foundation of Japanese photography had already been completed in the days of Shinzo Fukuhara and Kozo Nojima a little while ago in the prewar modern photography represented by Yasui. This is a valuable book that contains more than 200 pages of masterpieces of such ancestors.