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    Presenting an Egalitarian Multicultural Empire through Transparent Media: Photographic Reporting in Print Mass Media in Late Interwar Japan by Shiho Maeshima

    Published 2023-11-01
    “…It offered readers insights into the contemporary world, providing access to diverse peoples and remote locations through a combination of photographs and text. Japan was no exception. However, unlike Europe or North America, where the primary medium for disseminating knowledge through images was photo magazines or newspapers, in interwar Japan it was mass-market women’s magazines that popularised the practice of using images to convey information within society. …”
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    Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya’s ‘Snow Land’ Photographs by Ross Tunney

    Published 2015-06-01
    “…This article analyses the Snow Land photographic series by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya [1915–1999] in relation to issues of modernity, nostalgia and discourses of agrarianism in 1940s and 1950s Japan. …”
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    The edge of the field of vision by Odo, D, Odo, David R.

    Published 2004
    “…Through an examination of images from the archive of photographs of the Ogasawara Islands, one gains an understanding of modern Japan as a society more diverse than the mostly homogeneous nation it is generally represented as, and more fluid in its definitions of Japaneseness than previously thought.…”
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    Ryuzo Mikimoto and the Ruskin ‘Relics’ Exhibitions of 1926, 1931 and 1933 by Haruka Miki

    Published 2020-06-01
    “…Based on primary sources such as a 1926 exhibition catalogue, related newspaper articles, and The Journal of the Ruskin Society of Tokyo Ryuzo issued, this study reconstructs the exhibitions, reconsiders Ryuzo’s Ruskin in the context of the history of religious thought in modern Japan, and sheds light on his peace-oriented and non-elitist endeavours to disseminate Ruskin’s ideas on art and society in Japan.…”
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    Recensione a Edit Tóth, “Design and Visual Culture from the Bauhaus to Contemporary Art. Optical Deconstructions”, London-New York, Routledge, 2018, pp. 194, Ills. 66 b/n by Carlotta Castellani

    Published 2020-12-01
    “…Through an in-depth analysis of the artworks, the book highlights in an original way the interaction between artistic creation and cultural context, and underlines new connections between photographic solutions and cultural changes in society, thus opening up new research perspectives in particular on the relationship between photography and design.…”
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