[Exhibition of Japanese Photography: Catalogue] Выставка японской фотографии

Rostov-on-Don: Rostov-on-Don Salon of Photography, 1989. Compiled by B. Bykov.
8vo. [32] pp., ill.

The first Russian exhibition catalogue devoted to Japanese photography — and a provincial imprint at that.

Japanese woodcuts and painting had Soviet scholars behind them. Japanese photography had almost none. Across sixty-five years Sovetskoe Foto carried fewer than forty scattered items on the subject, and exactly one article devoted to it — a translation, The First Photographers in Japan, published in 1970.

Exhibitions were no better. In 1929 Asahi sent photographs to the USSR that were never hung. Only two Soviet exhibitions dealt with Japanese photography alone: Tokyo 1958, and this one — and only this one produced a catalogue. Twenty photographers from the Tokyo club Arc-en-Ciel, led by Nakai Masami (中居正躺) of the Royal Photographic Society, are each given one reproduction; a closing list records all 134 works shown, among them posterisations, solarisations and montages.

Binding & condition

Original pictorial wrappers, issued without a title. Good: light rubbing and soiling to the wrappers.

Rarity

No copy traced on OCLC.