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Photography

City University of New York (CUNY)

Theses and Dissertations

2019

American Occupation

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Seen And Unseen: Visualizing Contradictions In Postwar Japan, 1950s–1960s, Christina Lai May 2019

Seen And Unseen: Visualizing Contradictions In Postwar Japan, 1950s–1960s, Christina Lai

Theses and Dissertations

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.