was a photographer and poet.
He was a prominent Japanese
surrealist
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born in
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...
, Japan.
Biography
Birth
He was born in
Naka-ku, Nagoya,
Aichi
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, Japan. He was the oldest son of Goro Yamamoto (1880–1941), who was the founding member of Aiyu Photography Club. Goro was running a
photo studio
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Since the early years of the 20th ce ...
and a shop selling cameras in Nagoya.
Encounter with Surrealism
He encountered
surrealism and
dadaism
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through the poetry magazine "cine´" published by Yamanaka Chiruu who was promoting surrealism in Japan. At the age of 15, he started to write poems. He graduated from the Nagoya Second Commercial School in 1929. That year, he started writing poetry. He left
Meiji University School of Arts and letters in Tokyo, where he majored in
French Literature
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before graduation and then went back to Nagoya. In 1931, at the age of 17, he published his works in the Journal "''Dokuritsu''(''Independent'')", which was published by "Dokuritsu Shashin Kenkyu Kai(Independent Photography Research Association)".
Kansuke Yamamoto as a Surrealist
The oldest of his existing works is called "Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten・・・Moya to Shinshitsu(The Developing Thought of a Human...Mist and Bedroom)", which was published in a magazine in 1932.
In 1936, he changed his Chinese characters from 勘助(Kansuke) to 悍右(Kansuke). In 1938, he started a surrealist poetry magazine called "Yoru no Funsui(The Night's Fountain)". But the next year, the publication was forced to be discontinued by the authoritative pressure due to the
Peace Preservation Law.
In 1939, he formed a group called "Nagoya Photo
Avant-Garde
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" with
Tajima Tsugio,
Minoru Sakata, Shimozato Yoshio, and Yamanaka Chiruu, etc. The group applied surrealism into their photographs and their avant-garde photography gathered national attention by some magazines like "Photo Times" and "Camera Art". He became a member of "VOU" in 1939, belonging until it was dissolved in 1972. He also formed "VIVI" (1948–1950), "Bijyutsu Bunka Association, Division of Photography" (1949–1954), "Mado(Windows)"(1953–1958), "Honoo (Flame)" (1955–1961), "Subjective Photography Federation of Japan" (1956), "ESPACE" (1956–1958), "Arukishine" (1958), "Avant-Garde Association of Poets" (1958) and "Nagoya Five" (1963–1964).
He often created works which indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealistic ways.
Later life
From around 1965 to 1975, he coached the younger generation as an adviser of Chubu Photography Federation of Students.
He also donated his body to science via
Nagoya University School of Medicine
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upon his death and no funeral was held, in accordance with his living will.
Works
*
Nagoya City Art Museum
The is located in the city of Nagoya in central Japan.
The museum building itself was constructed by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the leading Japanese architects, from 1983 to 1987.
Works by the surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, Sean Scully, and Alexand ...
*
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
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As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ...
*
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
*
The J. Paul Getty Museum(
J. Paul Getty Trust
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)
*
The Art Institute of Chicago
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*Smithsonian's Freer , Sackler, Washington DC
Exhibitions
![Kansuke Yamamoto exhibit 1956](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Kansuke_Yamamoto_exhibit_1956.jpg)
*1936 Personal Exhibition / Maruzen Gallery,
Nagoya
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, Japan
*1939 "The Blue Wonder Association Exhibition" / Maruzen Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
*1948 – 1950 "VIVI" / Maruzen Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
*1949 "Modern Art" /
Mitsukoshi
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History
It was founded in 1673 with the (shop name) , sell ...
Gallery,
Nihonbashi, Japan
*1949 – 1954 "Bijyutsu Bunka Art Association Exhibition" /
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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etc.
*1952 "Photographers of Figurative art" / Aoyanagi-Hirokoji-Ten, Nagoya, Japan
*1953 "Mado(Windows)" / Nagoya,
Kobe, Japan
*1953 "Abstraction and Fantasy: How to Understand Non-figurative (Non-realistic) Painting" /
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The in Tokyo, Japan, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art.
This Tokyo museum is also known by the English acronym MOMAT (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). The museum is known for its collection of 20th-centu ...
*1956 – 1961 "Honoo(Flame)" / Konica Gallery(
Konica Minolta
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Plaza), Tokyo,
Osaka
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, and Nagoya, Japan
*1956 "International Subjective Photography" /
Takashimaya
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Gallery, Nihonbashi, Japan
*1956 Personal Exhibition / Matsushima Gallery,
Ginza, Japan
*1956 Personal Exhibition / Maruzen Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
*1957 Personal Exhibition / Konica Gallery(Konica Minolta Plaza),
Fukuoka
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, Japan
*1957 – 1976 "VOU Exhibition" / Kunugi Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan etc.
*1957 "Modern Art Photography Group" / Kunugi Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
*1958 "ESPACE" / Maruzen Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
*1958 "Exhibition of Japan Subjective Photography" / Fuji Photo Salon(
FUJIFILM
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The offerings from the ...
Photo Salon), Tokyo, Japan
*1958 "The Vanguard of Photography and Poetry" / Mimatsu Publishing, Inc. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
*1960 "The Sense of Abstraction" /
The Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of th ...
(MoMA), New York CityA.
*1960 "Subjective Photography" / Konica Gallery(Konica Minolta Plaza), Tokyo, Japan
*1963 "Shusen Kai"
*1963 – 1964 "Nagoya Five" / Fuji Photo Salon(FUJIFILM Photo Salon), Tokyo, etc.
*1968 "VERB" /
Aichi
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Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
*1978 – 1982 "The Exhibition of The Committee of The
Chubu Headquarter of The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies" / Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
*1983 "Pictures of Yamamoto Kansuke" / New French School, Nagoya, Japan
*1986 "Avant-Garde Photography, Italy and Japan / The Contemporary Art Gallery,
Seibu Department Stores
is a Japanese department store. The first store to trade under the name opened its doors in 1949. Seibu is typical of Japanese department stores with a wide variety of stores doing business on several floors. The company is now a subsidiary of S ...
,
Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan
*1986 "VOU" /
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
*1988 "The Art of Modern Japanese Photography" /
Two Houston Center
*1988 "Surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto Exhibition" / IMAGINATION MARKET Q&P, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
*1988 "The 150 years of Fine Art Photography – France, Japan, America" / Tsukashin Hall,
Amagasaki
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,
Hyogo, Japan
*1988 "Fine Art Photography in Japan 1920's – 1940's" / Konica Plaza(Konica Minolta Plaza), Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
*1988 "Japanese Photography in 1930s" / The Museum of Modern Art,
Kamakura &
Hayama
260px, Morito Beach
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, Japan
*1989 "Avant-Garde Photography of Nagoya" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*1990 "The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan" /
Shizuoka
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* Shizuoka Airport
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...
Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
*1990 "Surrealism in Japan" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*1990 "Modernism in Nagoya 1920's – 1930's" / INAX Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
*1995 "The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan" /
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The is an art museum concentrating on photography.
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ...
, Japan
*1995 "The Age of Modernism" / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
*1995 "Collage, A Method of Contemporary Art" /
Nerima
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The ward refers to itself as Nerima City.
, the ward has an estimated population of 721,858, with 323,296 households and a population density of 15,013 persons per km2, while 15,326 foreign residents are r ...
Art Museum, Japan
*2001 "Modern Photography in Japan 1915–1940" /
Ansel Adams Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.
*2001 "Yamamoto Kansuke: Conveyor of the Impossible" /
Tokyo Station
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Gallery, Japan
*2003 "The History of Japanese Photography" /
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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etc.
*2004 "Provincial Fine Arts" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi, Japan
*2005 "How Photography changed People's Viewpoints" / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
*2006" Kansuke Yamamoto" / Stephen Wirtz Gallery、San Francisco, U.S.A.
*2006 "Curators' Choice from The Collection of Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography" / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
*2006 "Collage and Photomontage" / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
*2006 "The World of Yamamoto Kansuke" /
Doshisha University
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, Tokyo office
*2007 "The New Modern: Pre- and Post-War Japanese Photography" / Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
*2007 "Master the Museum's Collection" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*2007 "Living in the Material World -'Things' in Art of the 20th Century and Beyond" /
The National Art Center, Tokyo
(NACT) is a museum in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. A joint project of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the National Museums Independent Administrative Institution, it stands on a site formerly occupied by a research facility of the Universi ...
, Japan
*2008 "Surrealism and Photography" / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
*2009 "20 Years of Nagoya City Art Museum" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*2010 "World of Surrealism by the Collection" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*2012 "Drawing Surrealism" /
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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LACMA was founded in 19 ...
(LACMA), Los Angeles, U.S.A.
*2012 "Japan ・ Object 1920's – 70's" / Urawa Art Museum,
Saitama, Japan
*2013 "Drawing Surrealism" /
The Morgan Library & Museum
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, New York CityA.
*2013 "Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of
Hiroshi Hamaya
was a Japanese photographer active from 1935 to 1999.Mihashi Sumiyo (), "Hamaya Hiroshi", in ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.254. In Japanese only, despite the additional En ...
and Kansuke Yamamoto" /
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
*2014 "Enjoy the Art World −with your loved one" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*2015 "1940s -Rediscovery of 20th Century Japanese Art" / Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Japan
*2015
Paris Photo
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2015 /
Grand Palais, Paris, France
![Paris Photo 2015 山本悍右 amanasalto](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Paris_Photo_2015_%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%82%8D%E5%8F%B3_amanasalto.jpg)
*2016 Art Central Hong Kong, Hong Kong
*2016 "Kansuke Yamamoto" / Taka Ishii Gallery New York, New York City
*2016
Art Basel
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(Taka Ishii Gallery),
Basel
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, Switzerland
*2016 Frieze London,
Frieze Art Fair
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(Taka Ishii Gallery), London, England
*2016 Paris Photo 2016(Taka Ishii Gallery) / Grand Palais, Paris, France
*2016 " BLACK SUN/RED MOON" / RATIO 3, San Francisco, U.S.A.
*2016 "Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now" /
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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(SFMoMA), San Francisco, U.S.A.
*2017 "Kansuke Yamamoto" / Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film,
Roppongi, Tokyo
*2017 Group Exhibition "Japanese Surrealist Photography" / Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo,
Roppongi, Tokyo
*2017
Art Basel Hong Kong (Taka Ishii Gallery) / Hong Kong
*2017 "Kansuke Yamamoto" / Taka Ishii Gallery New York, New York City
*2017 SP-Arte (Taka Ishii Gallery) / Fundação Bienal de São Paulo,
São Paulo
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, Brazil
*2017
Art Basel
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(Taka Ishii Gallery) /
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
, Switzerland
*2017 Frieze London,
Frieze Art Fair
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(Taka Ishii Gallery), London, England
*2017 Paris Photo 2017(Taka Ishii Gallery) / Grand Palais, Paris, France
*2018 "THE MAGAZINE and THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHY: KOGA and JAPANESE MODERNISM." /
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also ...
*2018 "SHAPE OF LIGHT 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND ABSTRACT ART" /
Tate Modern
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,
Tate Britain
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, London, England
*2018 "Kansuke Yamamoto" / Taka Ishii Gallery New York, New York City
*2018 "Kansuke Yamamoto" / Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
![Kansuke Yamamoto work](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Kansuke_Yamamoto_work.jpg)
*2019 Homage to the Bauhaus / Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts Centre,
Nottingham
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, England, UK
*2019 "Aichi Art Chronicle 1919-2019" /Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi
*2019 "Japanese Photography – 1930s - 1970s" / Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
*2021 "The Movement Of Modern Photography In Nagoya 1911-1972" / Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
*2021 "From the museum collection 2021: second period" / Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
*2021 “Surrealism Beyond Borders” /
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, New York
“Surrealism Beyond Borders” , The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Taka Ishii Gallery News
*2022 "Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century" / Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, United States.
Solo exhibition catalogues
*"YAMAMOTO Kansuke : Conveyor of the Impossible", John Solt and Kaneko Ryuichi, East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, 2001
*"YAMAMOTO KANSUKE" STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO 2006
*''Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto'' (2013); Edited by Judith Keller & Amanda Maddox, with contributions by Kotaro Iizawa, Ryuichi Kaneko, Jonathan Reynolds; published by The J. Paul Getty Museum
*"Kansuke Yamamoto", Ryuichi Kaneko, Taka Ishii Gallery, 2017
Books by Kansuke Yamamoto
*Kansuke Yamamoto, "Yoruno Funsui", 1938–
*Kansuke Yamamoto, "Batafurai (Butterfly)", Nagoya Miniature Books Publishing, 1970
*『Kansuke Yamamoto』 Photographs and texts. Published by : Fine-Art Photography Association Tokyo 2017
Selected works
*''The Developing Thought of a Human... Mist and Bedroom'', 1932, Kansuke Yamamoto, collage, and gelatin silver print. Collection of Nagoya City Art Museum.
*Title unknown, 1933, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 25.2 × 30.0 cm. Private collection.
*Title unknown, 1938, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 18.7 × 24.5 cm. Collection of Gloria Katz
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and Willard Huyck
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Huyck and Lucas met as students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, film school ...
.
*Title unknown, 1938, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 15.9 × 24.6 cm. Collection of Nagoya City Art Museum.
*Title unknown, 1939, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 24.4 × 29.6 cm.
*Untitled, ca. 1930s, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 43.8 × 36.2 cm. Collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser.
*''Buddhist Temple's Birdcage'', 1940, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 25.7 × 17.9 cm. Collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.
*Variation of "''Buddhist Temple's Birdcage''", 1940, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 30.2 × 24.8 cm. Collection of Nagoya City Art Museum.
*Self-Portrait, 1940, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 46. × 56.4 cm. Private collection.
*Title unknown, ca. 1940s, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 25.2 × 17.7 cm.
*''View with a Ship Passing Through'', 1941, Kansuke Yamamoto, Collage, 24.5 × 30.3 cm. Private collection.
*''Stapled Flesh'', 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto, gelatin silver print, 31.1 × 24.8 cm. Collection of Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
*''A Chronicle of Drifting'', 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto, Collage, 30 × 24.8 cm. Collection of The J.P.Getty Museum.
*Self-Portrait, 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 25.2 × 17.9 cm. Private collection.
*''Scenery with Ocean'', 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 27.0 × 18.4 cm.
*''Dream Passage'', 1949, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 30.0 × 24.9 cm.
*''Floating City'', 1950, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gollage, 15.7 × 22.4 cm. Private collection.
*''Isamu Noguchi
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'', 1950, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 23.4 × 18.2 cm.
*''Gorgeous Departure'', 1950, Kansuke Yamamoto, 27.8 × 22.7 cm.
*''Reminiscence'', 1953, Kansuke Yamamoto, gelatin silver print. Collection of Anne and David Ruderman.
*''Relaxation Season'', 1953, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 27.5 × 22.9 cm. Private collection.
*''Sleepy Sea'', 1953, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 27.6 × 31.0 cm.
*''Giving Birth to a Joke'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 42.5 × 55.6 cm. Private collection.
*''Rose and Shovel'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 31.9 × 34.9 cm. Private collection.
*''The Distance between the Landscape and the Dusk'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Chromogenic print, 31.9 × 34.9 cm.
*Beautiful Passerby 1956,Kansuke Yamamoto, Chromogenic print
*''My Thin-Aired Room'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 34.9 × 42.9 cm.
*''My Thin-Aired Room'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 35.2 × 42.2 cm.
*''My Thin-Aired Room'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 35.4 × 43 cm.
*''My Thin-Aired Room'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 35.2 × 42.9 cm.
*''The Man Who Went Too Far'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print.
*''Cold Person'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 43.8 × 36.2 cm. Collection of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck.
*From the series of "''Obaku''", 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''The Origin of History'', 1956, Kansuke Yamamoto, Chromogenic print, 52.5 × 47.8 cm.Collection of J. Paul Getty Museum.
*''The Closed Room'', 1958, Kansuke Yamamoto, Gelatin silver print, 35.9 × 45.0 cm.
*''A Forgotten Person'', 1958, Kansuke Yamamoto, Chromogenic Print, 46.2 × 33.0 cm. Collection of J. Paul Getty Museum.
*(''The hard, cobalt desert...''), 1958, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''My Bench'', 1963, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''I’d Like to Think While in the Body of a Horse'', 1964, Kansuke Yamamoto, Chromogenic Print, 46.2 × 33.0 cm. Collection of J. Paul Getty Museum.
*''Suddenly in the Morning'', 1958, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''Magnifying Glass, Rendezvous'', 1970, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''Butterfly'', 1970, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''The silver platter and the pigeon in the cage, / We suddenly have spring rain like typefaces today. / Cioran, / I may talk to you again someday'', 1979, Kansuke Yamamoto.
*''Under rose flowers of exploding black gunpowder / Girl flutters her braided hair running to the plaza / Dawn laughs out loud swaying its shoulders'', 1983, Kansuke Yamamoto.
Bibliography
Exhibition catalogues
*"The Founding and Development of Modern Photography in Japan", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
The is an art museum concentrating on photography.
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ...
, 1995
*"Surrealism in Japan", Nagoya City Art Museum
The is located in the city of Nagoya in central Japan.
The museum building itself was constructed by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the leading Japanese architects, from 1983 to 1987.
Works by the surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, Sean Scully, and Alexand ...
, 1990
*"Avant-Garde Photography of Nagoya", Nagoya City Art Museum, 1989
*"Yamamoto Kansuke: Conveyor of the Impossible", John Solt and Kaneko Ryuichi, East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, 2001
*"The History of Japanese Photography", Anne Wilkes Tucker
Anne Wilkes Tucker was an American museum curator of photographic works. She retired in June 2015.
Life and work
Tucker was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received a B.A. in Art History from Randolph Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Vi ...
, Dana Frs-Hansen II, Dana Friis-Hansen, Kaneko Ryuichi, Takeba Joe, Kotaro Iizawa, Kinoshita Naoyuki, Yale University Press
Yale University Press is the university press of Yale University. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, and became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.
, Yale Universi ...
, 2003
*"Drawing Surrealism", Leslie Jones, Isabelle Dervaux, Susan Laxton, Prestel Pub, 2012
*''Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto'' (2013); Edited by Judith Keller & Amanda Maddox, with contributions by Kotaro Iizawa, Ryuichi Kaneko, Jonathan Reynolds; published by The J. Paul Getty Museum
*"Kansuke Yamamoto", Ryuichi Kaneko, Taka Ishii Gallery, 2017
Books
*Nagoya City Art Museum
The is located in the city of Nagoya in central Japan.
The museum building itself was constructed by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the leading Japanese architects, from 1983 to 1987.
Works by the surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto, Sean Scully, and Alexand ...
, Supervised by Hiroshi Kamiya and Minako Tsunoda, Edited by Kazuo Yamawaki, Toshihide Yoshida, Katsunori Fukaya, Satoshi Yamada, Joe Takeba, Minako Tsunoda, Akiko Harasawa and Yuko Ito, "Selected Works from the Collection of Nagoya City Art Museum", Nagoya City Art Museum, 1998
* Shigeichi Nagano, Kōtarō Iizawa, and Naoyuki Kinoshita
is a Japanese art historian. He currently works in the University of Tokyo. He was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He took part in publishing the book ''The History ...
, "Japanese Photographers Vol.15 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 ''Sh ...
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is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.Louis Frédéric, ''Japan Encyclopedia'', Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 409.
Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki's novel ''Ko ...
, 1999
*John Solt, ''Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1901–1978)'', Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retir ...
, 1999
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The is an art museum concentrating on photography.
As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ...
, "328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers", Tankosha, 2000
*John Solt(Translator: Tetsuya Taguchi)Edited by: Shūji Takashina, Takayuki Kojima
Takayuki (written: 孝之, 孝行, 孝幸, 隆之, 隆行, 隆幸, 高之, 高行, 高猷, 貴之, 貴幸, 貴由, 貴由輝, 崇之, 崇幸, 敬之, 卓行, 鷹幸, 恭之 or タカユキ in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable pe ...
, Ryōsuke Ōhashi, Yūko Tanaka
is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television, after she graduated from Meiji University.
Life and career
Early career
At the beginning of her ...
, Noriko Hashimoto, 'On Kansuke Yamamoto', "The Aesthetics of Japan", Vol.35, Toei-sha,2002
*Kazumiki Chiba, ‘YAMAMOTO Kansuke : Conveyor of the Impossible’,"Exhibition Catalogues in the Age of Cross – Cultural and Cross-Genre Studies", Edited by Eiko Imahashi, 2003
* Kotaro Iizawa, "From Eyes to Eyes, Walking Through Photo Exhibitions, 2001–2003", Misuzu Shobo, 2004
*Tetsuya Taguchi, "World of Kansuke Yamamoto, A World-class Photographer", Doshisha, 2005
*Satomi Fujimura, "An Introduction to the History of Photography, Section Two: CREATION, The Opening of Modern Age”, Shinchosha
is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.
Books
* Haruki Murakami: '' Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (19 ...
, 2005
*Teruo Ishihara, "RAVINE – Poem & Prose Little Anthology", Silver Paper Pub. Kyoto, 2011
*Kotaro Iizawa, Nobuo Ina, John Szarkowski and Etsuro Ishihara, "The Tales of Syashin (the first volume):Words by Japanese Photographers 1889–1989", aurastudio, 2012
*Kotaro Iizawa, "Deep Insight! 100 Super Masterpieces of Japanese Photographs", Pie Books, 2012
*Majella Munro, "Communicating Vessels: The Surrealist Movement in Japan 1925–70”, Enzo Arts and Publishing Limited, 2012
*Nobuzo Kinoshita, "The Lives of Prodigy of Tokai", Edited by Shoko Komatsu, Fubaisha, 2013
*Melusine n.36, Editions L'Age d'Homme, 2016 Paris.
*PARIS PHOTO BY KARL LAGERFELD. Production and printing: Steidl, 2017
Articles
*Taylor Mignon, "A ‘subversive’ finally brought in from the cold", The Japan Times
''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
''The Japan Times'' was launched b ...
, 15 August 2001
*John Solt, "Perception, Misperception, Nonperception", Milk Magazine, 2005
*REAR, 'Rediscovery:The History of Photograph of Nagoya', Rear, Vol.14, 2006
*Alissa J. Anderson, "Before and After the Bomb", Santa Barbara Independent, 1 February 2007
* Suzanne Muchnic, "At the Getty, a focus on Asian photographs", Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the U ...
, 15 April 2009
*Roberta Smith
Roberta Smith (born 1948) is co-chief art critic of ''The New York Times'' and a lecturer on contemporary art. She is the first woman to hold that position.
Early life
Born in 1948 in New York City and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. Smith studied a ...
, "Squiggles From the Id or Straight From the Brain", The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
, 24 January 2013
*Ánxel Grove, "Exhiben a Hamaya y Yamamoto, dos deslumbrantes fotógrafos japoneses de principios del XX", 20 minutos, 2013
* Claire O'neill, "Japanese Photography: A Tale Of Two Artists", National Public Radio
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ...
, 12 March 2013
*Marc Haefele, "PHOTOS: Realism meets Surrealism in Getty Japanese photography exhibit", Southern California Public Radio, 27 March 2013
* Richard B. Woodward, "The Realist and the Surrealist", The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
, 3 April 2013
*Meher McArthur
“Japan’s Photographer Reflect the Realities of a Changing World”
Southern California Cultural Journal, KCET, 18 April 2013
* Lauren Russell, "A surreal take on 20th-century Japan", CNN
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Photos – CNN.com blogs, 6 May 2013
*Danielle Sommer
“From Los Angeles: Japan’s Modern Divide”
Art Practical, 6 May 2013
*Bondo Wyszpolski
“Japan’s Modern Divide: the Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto”
Easy Reader
Founded in 1970, the ''Easy Reader'' is a weekly newspaper published every Thursday and delivered to homes in Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach (Beach Cities/ South Bay, California), with a circulation of approximately 45,000 w ...
, 12 May 2013
*Catherine Wagley
“Japan’s Modern Divide: the Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto”
photograph, 28 May 2013
*Smith, Douglas F.
“Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto”
Library Journal;15 June 2013, Vol. 138 Issue 11, p88, 2013
*Leah Ollman
Leah ''La'ya;'' from (; ) appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son ...
“2 Japanese photographers, 2 cultural camps at Getty Museum”
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the U ...
, 22 June 2013
* Colin Pantall
“Japan’s Modern Divide: the Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto”
photo-eye Blog, 18 July 2013
*Akiko Horiyama
Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by
In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English language news website called ''The Mainichi'' (previ ...
, 19 August 2013
*Eiko Aoki, "The Pacific Rim Divide of “Japan’s Modern Divide”, Trans-Asia Photography Review, Hampshire College
Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1970 as an experiment in alternative education, in association with four other colleges in the Pioneer Valley: Amherst College, Smith College, Mo ...
, Volume 4, Issue 1: Archives, Fall 2013
*Eiko Aoki
“Behind the Folding Screen of “Japan’s Modern Divide” An interview with the curators of the Getty Museum’s Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto Photo Exhibit”
Kyoto Journal, vol.79, 23 February 2014
*Montse Álvarez
“Con Kansuke Yamamoto en la penumbra de lo real”
ABC Color, 11 May 2014
Videos
SoCal Japan News Digest
6 April 2013, UTB Hollywood
See also
* History of photography/Japanese photographers
* List of Japanese photographers
References
Sources
*''Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto'' (2013); Edited by Judith Keller & Amanda Maddox, with contributions by Kotaro Iizawa, Ryuichi Kaneko, Jonathan Reynolds; published by The J. Paul Getty Museum
External links
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– CNN
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YAMAMOTO Kansuke Image Gallery
* ttps://archive.today/20130413121452/http://100.yahoo.co.jp/detail/%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%AC%E6%82%8D%E5%8F%B3/ Yahoo!Japan Encyclopedia – 山本悍右(YAMAMOTO Kansuke) Source: Encyclopedia Nipponica
The is an encyclopedia of Japan and the Japanese people, first published by Shogakukan from 1984 to 1989 in 25 volumes. After 10 years of preparation, over 130,000 entries and 500,000 indexes were organized in alphabetical order in more than 23,00 ...
; Published by Shogakukan
is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, comics ( manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.
Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the H ...
*John Solt
"Perception, Misperception, Nonperception"
''Milk Magazine'', 2005
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