Photo Japanese Photography : The Three Giants Struggling with the Modern

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"Photography" was the first Western technology to be introduced in this country during the Meiji Period, when Japanese modernization was rapidly promoted. Back in 1839, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) developed the "Daguerreo-type" camera. This new technology shocked the Japanese people. First of all, there was a need to learn the expression and technique called "Pictorealism" that was popular in the West. However, during that period, there appeared people who realized the terrible simplicity of the technique of photography, and who simply tried to master that simplicity. What is the simplicity of photography? It is the fact that "things exist and they are depicted in photography." Photography is the vestige of the light emitted by things, things that are the motion of swirling light are depicted in photography. It is the fact that things are recorded in photography. Photography is the vestige of the light emitted by things, things that are the motion of swirling light are depicted in photography. How the three people who believed to be true to this fact met photography, became aware of its essence, and walked in their respective ways and through their respective objects. This book simply pursues the trajectory in a straightforward way. "The author says." They met photography in a decisive way during the turbulent period before the war when machine civilization was at the height of the war. They were photographers who lived in photography with the question of Westernization = modernization being forced in the Japanese soil and chose photography as the basis on which they built themselves. "This book reveals the potential of photography that was possible only in the Japanese place, and shows that the" mystery "of the world and photography can be experienced by anyone. It is truly one of the great strength worthy of being called the original theory of photography. [Contents of this book] that was possible only in the Japanese place, and shows that the world and the" mystery "of photography can be experienced by anyone. [Contents of this book] Introduction : The Creation of Photography -- In the midst of modern civilization, Chapter I : Photography Leading to the Belief in Things -- Source : Ihei Kimura. They were photographers who lived in photography with the question of Westernization = modernization being imposed in the Japanese soil. They were photographers who lived in photography with the question of Westernization = modernization being imposed in the Japanese soil. Chapter 2 : The Time to Coalesce, the Awakening of Plenty of Photography -- Ken Domon, the Extreme North Chapter 3 : Towards the Hidden Hometown -- The Succession and Return of Hiroshi Hamatani to the emerging photographers -- Towards the lesson of perception. 1901 1909 1915 Ken Domon