Yoshifumi Hattori

Yoshifumi Hattori
服部 義文
OccupationPhotographer
Known for
  • Prewar experimental photography * Co-founding VIVI * Works such as The Legends (Gods) and the Allegory series
MovementAvant-garde photography

Yoshifumi Hattori (服部義文, Hattori Yoshifumi) was a Japanese photographer active in prewar experimental photography and postwar Nagoya avant-garde.

According to an exhibition text published by MEM, Hattori studied butoh dance under Baku Ishii in Tokyo before turning to photography in 1937. In that year he co-founded the Avant-Garde Image Group with Tarui Yoshio, Hanawa Gingo, Kōrō Honjō, and Hirai Terushichi, and his work The Legends (Gods), shown at the 27th Nami-ten Exhibition in 1938, received critical acclaim.

After World War II, Hattori became a founding member of the Nagoya photography collective VIVI, formed in 1947 with the photographer-poet Kansuke Yamamoto and photographers Keiichirō Gotō and Minayoshi Takada.

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