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Naniwa Photography Club
The Naniwa Photography Club (浪華写真倶楽部) is an avant-garde amateur photography club that was established with the support of the Kuwata Photographic Materials company in 1904 in Osaka. It is the oldest amateur photography club in Japan. Key members were Kuwata Shozaburo, Ishii Yoshinosuke, Kometani Koro, Fukumori Hayuko, Yasui Nakaji, Yoho Tsuda, Hirai Terushichi, Kobayashi Meison, and Umesaka Ori. After establishment, the club began to exhibit their ''Nami-ten'' exhibition. This photography exhibition has been held almost every year since the club was established with several exceptions of the years during World War II. The clubs second exhibition was held in 1908 and kicked off major organized activities by the club. The central photographers in this exhibition were Kometani Koro, Yokoyama Kinkei and Kajiwara Keibun. These photographers used pigment printing process in their gum-bichromate prints. During the Taisho Era, the group's works were centered around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakaji Yasui
(15 December 1903 – 15 March 1942) was one of the most prominent photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan. Life Yasui was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club (, ''Naniwa Shashin Kurabu'') in 1920s and also became a member of the Tampei Photography Club (, ''Tanpei Shashin Kurabu'') in 1930. His photographs cover a wide range from pictorialism to straight photography, including photomontages. He appreciated every type and kind of photographs without any prejudice and tried not to reject any of them even during wartime. Works * photographs of Jewish people who fled from the Nazis to Kobe (Japan) in the 1930s — in collaboration with several other photographers in the Tampei Shashin Club, such as Osamu Shiihara, Kaneyoshi Tabuchi and Tōru Kōno * series Exhibitions in Japan *Nakaji Yasui (安井仲治展) at Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art (兵庫県立近代美術館) and Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery (西武 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiyoshi Koishi
(March 26, 1908 - July 7, 1957) was one of the most prominent Japanese photographers in the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club in 1928. In 1933 he published the monograph ''Shoka Shinkei'' (初夏神経, "Early Summer Nerves"), one of the most important works for Japanese modernist photography (''Shinkō Shashin'', 新興写真). In this work, he used many photographic techniques such as photomontage and photograms and succeeded in creating surrealistic images. Although Koishi's unconventional style reached a large audience through ''Shoka Shinkei'', it was not without criticisms. Notably, the reception of his monograph was markedly different in Tokyo. They were criticized as being "abstract, self-righteous, and lacking in reality". At the time the Tokyo photography scene was fixated on a more journalistic documentary style of photography with a focus on social issues. From 1938, he worked for the Japanese go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 Establishments In Japan
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Minoru Sakata
was a Japanese photographer A photographer (the Greek language, Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographe .... References *''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. . Japanese photographers 1902 births 1974 deaths {{Japan-photographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashiya Camera Club
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Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or ''surreality.'' It produced works of painting, writing, theatre, filmmaking, photography, and other media. Works of Surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and '' non sequitur''. However, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost (for instance, of the "pure psychic automatism" Breton speaks of in the first Surrealist Manifesto), with the works themselves being secondary, i.e. artifacts of surrealist experimentation. Leader Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photomontage
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image may appear as a seamless physical print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as "compositing", and in casual usage is often called "photoshopping" (from the name of the popular software system). A composite of related photographs to extend a view of a single scene or subject would not be labeled as a montage, but instead a stitched image or a digital image mosaic. History Author Oliver Grau in his book, ''Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion'', notes that the creation of an artificial immersive virtual reality, arising as a result of technical exploitation of new inventions, is a long-standing human practice throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photogram
A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed for a shorter time or through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey, while fully exposed areas are black in the final print. The technique is sometimes called cameraless photography. It was used by Man Ray in his exploration of rayographs. Other artists who have experimented with the technique include László Moholy-Nagy, Christian Schad (who called them "Schadographs"), Imogen Cunningham and Pablo Picasso. Variations of the technique have also been used for scientific purposes, in shadowgraph studies of flow in transparent media and in high-speed Schlieren photogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampei Photography Club
The was a group based in Osaka from 1930 until 1941 that promoted avant-garde and, toward the end, socially concerned photography. The group was founded around the photographer Bizan Ueda, among photographers who bought their supplies from the Tampei Pharmacy (, ''Tanpei yakkyoku'') in Shinsaibashi, Osaka. The founding members included Terushichi Hirai, Kōrō Honjō and Tōru Kōno; these were soon augmented by Kaneyoshi Tabuchi, Nakaji Yasui, and others. The group's first exhibition was held in 1931 but it was the second exhibition, in 1932, that caused a stir, with avant-garde works. The club exhibited frequently; its first exhibition in Tokyo held in 1935. The club's 23rd exhibition, in March 1941, featured a series titled ''Refugee Jews'' (, ''Ryūbō Yudaya'') of 22 photographs depicted exiles from eastern Europe who were living in Kobe. Six of these were by Yasui, who had instigated two photography sessions for it earlier that month.''Tanjō hyakunen: Yasui Nakaji: Shash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoho Tsuda
was a post–World War II Japanese photographer. He was born in Nara Prefecture to an affluent family. He followed his father's advice to become an engineer and enrolled at the Yoshino Technical High School. He continued his education in engineering at Tokyo Industrial Arts High School but later transferred to Nihon University's College of Art to major in film. After he was conscripted in World War 2, he decided to do photography. After studying briefly at the Osaka College of Photographic Arts, Tsuda began to work at a photography studio, which like many at the time specialized in portraits. In 1948, he joined the Naniwa Photography Club. Tsuda's early works can be characterized with his concern for construction and abstraction in the vein of subjective photography. But his later works focus more on expressing a humanistic narrative focused on nature. Tsuda's works are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (five prints), the J. Paul Gett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Print Process
The oil print process is a photographic printmaking process that dates to the mid-19th century. Oil prints are made on paper on which a thick gelatin layer has been sensitized to light using dichromate salts. After the paper is exposed to light through a negative, the gelatin emulsion is treated in such a way that highly exposed areas take up an oil-based paint, forming the photographic image. A significant drawback to the oil print process is that it requires the negative to be the same size as the final print because the medium is not sensitive enough to light to make use of an enlarger. A subtype of the oil print process, the bromoil process, was developed in the early 20th century to solve this problem. The oil print and bromoil processes create soft images reminiscent of paint or pastels but with the distinctive indexicality of a photograph. For this reason, they were popular with the Pictorialists during the first half of the 20th century. The painterly qualities of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
