SKIRA Editore | Domon Ken. The Master of Japanese Realism

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DOMON KEN
THE MASTER OF JAPANESE REALISM

PUBLICATION: FEBRUARY 2017

Edited by Rossella Menegazzo, Takeshi Fujimori
With the assistance of Yuki Seli
184 pages, 161 colour and 13 b/w illustrations
Retail price: $45 / £ 29.95

With over 70,000 photographs taken between the 1920s and the 1980s, Domon Ken (1909 - 1990) produced an unparalleled body of work that reveals all facets of 20th century Japan: from silent temples to puppet theaters, from the modest faces of street urchins to the seductive ones of celebrities, from the poorest mining villages to Hiroshima and its unhealed wounds.

This selection of 150 key works from the 1920s to the 1970s documents a period of unprecedented upheaval and turmoil in Japanese society. A fascinating, moving and invaluable insight into the work of the most important Japanese realist photographer.

Domon Ken, Bathing at the river in front of the Hiroshima Dome (detail), from the series Hiroshima, 1957.
Ken Domon Museum of Photography.

Authors

Rossella Menegazzo is professor of East Asian Art History at the University of Milan.

Takeshi Fujimori is artistic director of Ken Domon Museum of Photography, Sakata.

Yuki Seli is a contemporary Japanese photographer.

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