Panel Discussion: Post-War Japanese Photography
October 21
Panel Discussion: Post-War Japanese Photography
Moderated by Prof. Marilyn Ivy (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University); featuring Alexandra Munroe (Director, Japan Society Gallery) and Leo Rubinfien (Photographer and Independent Scholar)
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Hall (CEPSR), Columbia University
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Presented in conjunction with The Daido Moriyama Photography Exhibits at the Japan Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
During the 1950s and 1960s, photography flourished in Japan both as a vital art form and as a powerful medium of social commentary. In conjunction with a number of current New York exhibitions of Japanese photography, this program will examine the period, the photographic form, and a number of its principal exponents. ALEXANDRA MUNROE is a specialist in modern Japanese art; she was curator of the exhibition “Scream Against the Sky: Japanese Art After 1945.” LEO RUBINFIEN has lived many years in Japan, where he was active as a photographer and writer on contemporary Japanese arts and society.
Three related gallery shows will also take place in New York at roughly the same time as the Moriyama retrospective:
| Miscellaneous work by Moriyama | September 16th – October 30th Work by Shomei Tomatsu and books by the “Provoke” group | September 23rd – October 23rd Work from “Crows”, and miscellaneous photographs, by Masahisa Fukase: |
| Laurence Miller Gallery 20 West 57th St. | Roth Horowitz Gallery 160A E. 70th St. | Robert Mann Gallery 210 11th Ave. October 28th – December 11th |
