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examples of graphic design and photomontage before 1960
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 Photographer
unknown. Portrait of a Kabuki actor (edition of Yamamoto Rihee),
1876.
From The Advent of Photography in Japan (Tokyo: Tokyo
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1997) 78.
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 Commercial
montage: poster for the Shibaura Motors, montage from original
photographs by Domon Ken. 1938.
From Japan Photographers Association, A Century of Japanese
Photography (London: Hutchinson, 1981) 316.
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Advertising
poster for "Lait Cream." Sawa Reika, 1935.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 306.
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"Concept
of the Machinery of the Creator." Photomontage by Hanawa
Gingo, c. 1930.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 178.
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"A
Dream of the Moon." Photomontage by Hirai Terushichi, 1938.
From A Century of Japanese Photography, 316.
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 Poster
by Omi Tadashi for Shiseido Cosmetics, 1946.
From James Howard Fraser, "Don't Sell Salt Illegally: Posters
in Occupied Japan," in Mark Sandler, ed. The Confusion
Era: Art and Culture of Japan During the Allied Occupation,
1945-1952 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997) 75.
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Designer
unknown, poster for Peace Cigarettes, 1950.
From The Confusion Era 81.
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 "Sheltered
Weaklings." Poster (silkscreen) by Kono Takashi, 1953. As cited
in James Howard Fraser, "Don't Sell Salt Illegally: Posters
in Occupied Japan," Kono describes his design as an attempt
to "caution his fellow citizens against meekly following the
'big American fish' in cultural, political, and social ways."
The Confusion Era 88. |
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Designer
unknown, poster for Kurosawa Akira's film Nora inu (Stray
Dog, 1949).
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 Designer
unknown, poster for Kurosawa Akira's film Rashomon (1950).
This film won the Grad Prix at the Venice International Film Festival
in 1951 and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1952, thereby
exposing Japanese film to wide international attention for the first
time. This poster, for a domestic audience, emphasises the more
lurid aspects of the tale. |
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intertexts for the graphic design of Yokoo Tadanori
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Kazumasa Nagai, poster for Asahi Stiny beer, 1965. 73 x 103 cm.
From Richard S. Thorton, The Graphic Spirit of Japan (New
York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991) 103.
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 Photograph
of Butoh dance founder Hijikata Tatsumi by Hiroe Eikô, part
of the series Kamaitachi, exhibited in 1969. Kamaitachi
was conceived as a dance-drama-- a sort of outdoor performance
art in which Hijikata and Hiroe travelled to rural northern Japan
and enacted a spontanious drama with the local residents; Hijikata
played the part of a sacred trickster or fool. Yokoo Tadanori
produced posters for the exhibition of the series and the book
which accompanied it.
From Mark Holbern, Black Sun: The Eyes of Four: Roots and
Innovation in Japanese Photography (New York: Aperture, 1986)
21.
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Two
more photographs from Hiroe and Hijikata's series Kamaitachi.
Black Sun 23, 25.
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 Andy
Warhol, "Marilyn." Silkscreen and oil on canvas, 40
x 40 in, 1964.
From Carter Ratcliff, Andy Warhol (New York: Abbeville
Press, 1983.
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