JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY. - Lot 178

JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY. From Pictorialism to Modernism (the Interwar Period). Catalog of the exhibition held at the Palais de Tokyo from November 15, 1990, to February 4, 1991. Paris, Mission du Patrimoine photographique / Ministry of Culture, 1990. Large quarto, publisher’s hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. An important catalog published on the occasion of the first major French exhibition devoted to the history of Japanese photography during the interwar period. Bringing together nearly two hundred works, it traces the evolution of photography in Japan, from the final developments of pictorialism to the emergence of modernism, highlighting the constant exchanges between the European avant-garde and Japanese artists. The book presents the leading figures of this formative period—Yasuzō Nojima, Iwata Nakayama, Shōji Ueda, Kiyoshi Koishi, Hiromu Kira, among others—as well as a comprehensive critical apparatus, a chronology, biographical notes, and an extensive collection of heliogravure illustrations. It remains a standard reference for the study of 20th-century Japanese photography. Condition: a very fine copy; the hardcover and dust jacket are in excellent condition; the interior is pristine.