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Photography was once considered the vera icon in modernity, a reputation that it has tried to justify ever since. But the \"world out there\" became increasingly suspect and uncertain as modernity unfolded, with the ultimate result that so-called reality no longer attracted the imagination. At that juncture there was no more use for photographic realism; that is, for capturing external reality. Every technique looks old when its motives look old. Photography no longer shows us what the world is like, but what the world was like at a time when people still believed that they could possess it in the photograph.
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Tokyo 1955-70
Review of the exhibition \"Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde\" on show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (18 Nov. 2012-25 Feb. 2013), featuring works in a range of media by various artists, exploring developments in art in post-War Japan. A catalogue accompanying the exhibition is available.
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Ise Shrine and a Modernist Construction of Japanese Tradition
This essay examines the history of the representation of the Shintō shrines at Ise with special emphasis on Watanabe Yoshio's stunning photographs of the shrines from 1953. During World War II, Ise became inextricably linked with nationalism and imperialistic conquest. Yet after the war modernists seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their designs. Watanabe's photographs were effective catalysts in the process through which modernists neutralized Ise's wartime political associations by establishing a new vision of Ise compatible with the postwar democratic rhetoric and consonant with modernist aesthetic values.
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Japan's Imperial Diet Building
Early in the 1954 science fiction classic Godzilla, Japan's National Diet Building stands steadfast in the bright light of day. The edifice is a refuge for the terrified citizens of Odoshima arriving in Tokyo to testify at hearings on the giant monster that has besieged their island. Only a few scenes later, the situation changes dramatically. Godzilla attacks Tokyo at night. During his rampage through the city, he melts electrical towers and crushes the Waco Department Store and the Japan Theater. Godzilla looms threateningly over the Diet Building, then trudges through the structure, which crumbles in his wake.
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Ise Shrine and a Modernist Construction of Japanese Tradition
This essay examines the history of the representation of the Shintō shrines at Ise with special emphasis on Watanabe Yoshio's stunning photographs of the shrines from 1953. During World War II, Ise became inextricably linked with nationalism and imperialistic conquest. Yet after the war modernists seized on this symbol of the antiquity of Japanese culture as a touchstone for their designs. Watanabe's photographs were effective catalysts in the process through which modernists neutralized Ise's wartime political associations by establishing a new vision of Ise compatible with the postwar democratic rhetoric and consonant with modernist aesthetic values.
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