Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde

Despite the censorship of dissident material during the decade between the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, a number of photographers across Japan produced a versatile body of Surrealist work. In a pioneering study of their practice, Jelena Stojković draws on primary sources and extensive archival research in … Continue reading Surrealism and Photography in 1930s Japan: The Impossible Avant-Garde