Date of Award
Spring 5-2-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art & Art History
First Advisor
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Second Advisor
Wen-Shing Chou
Academic Program Adviser
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Abstract
This thesis offers a comparative study on how photography visualizes the political dynamics, ideological and psychological contradictions in postwar Japan. The discussion includes the exhibition The Family of Man in Tokyo (1956), Werner Bischof and Robert Capa’s photographs of Japan, and local photographers Ken Domon and Shomei Tomatsu.
Recommended Citation
Lai, Christina, "Seen and Unseen: Visualizing Contradictions in Postwar Japan, 1950s–1960s" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/463
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