Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto
Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto | |
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| art exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2013) | |
| Country | United States |
| Location | J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center), Los Angeles, California |
| Exhibited | Photographs and related works by Kansuke Yamamoto and Hiroshi Hamaya |
| Curator | Judith Keller; Amanda Maddox |
| Organiser | J. Paul Getty Museum |
| Followed by | www |
| Notes | |
On view at the Getty Center from March 26 to August 25, 2013. The accompanying catalogue was published by Getty Publications in 2013 (ISBN 978-1-60606-132-9). | |
Japan's Modern Divide (full title Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto) was a 2013 photography exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center, Los Angeles; March 26-August 25, 2013) and an accompanying catalogue published by Getty Publications. Curated by Getty photographs curators Judith Keller and Amanda Maddox, the project presented the photographs of Kansuke Yamamoto in dialogue with those of the documentary photographer Hiroshi Hamaya, positioning Yamamoto's Surrealist-inspired, avant-garde practice as a key pole in the show's account of modern Japanese photography. The Getty exhibition text contrasts Hamaya's "objective documentation" with Yamamoto's "avant-garde" approach and presents the pairing as two sides of modern Japanese life (traditional/forward-looking, rural/urban, Eastern/Western). In a review in Trans-Asia Photography Review, Eiko Aoki noted that the catalogue includes essays by Keller, Maddox, Ryuichi Kaneko, Kotaro Iizawa, and Jonathan M. Reynolds, alongside translations of Yamamoto's poems by John Solt, helping Yamamoto's work circulate after the exhibition closed.