Japanese Photography in the 1970s –Memories Frozen in Time –

Tokyo: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1991. First edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Large Quarto. 183 (1)pp. Original stiff gray wraps with modern design and black lettering on cover. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography from September 19 - November 12, 1991. A continuation of "Innovation Japanese Photography in the 1960s," an exhibition at the museum in April of 1991.

"The usual approach in Japanese photography had been to organize photographs on themes. These [new] photographers abandoned the approach, shifting from an objective to a more inner-directed mode of expression. In the course of that shift, Nakahara and Okada, the photographers who had made explicit their ideas in Provoke [magazine started in 1968], produced anti-photographic photographs – coarse, blurred, out of focus images." (Yokoe Fuminori).

Moriyama had joined the magazine for its second issue and it ceased publishing with its third issue in 1969. This catalog contains b/w photographs, some color, of the 1970s by Daido Moriyama, Issei Suda, Hiromi Tsuchida, Bishin Jumonji, Kazuo Kitai, Ryoji Akiyama, Hiroji Kubota, Hajime Sawatari, Taiji Arita, Gasho Yamamura, Jun Morinaga, Akihide Tamura, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Miyako Ishiuchi, and Hitoshi Tsukiji. Contain list of exhibited photographs and chronology at rear. Text in Japanese and English. Light wear along edges of wraps and light age-toning along edges of block, not affecting photographs.