Label Text:
This photograph, taken in August of 1934, depicts a fashionable young couple strolling along Watanabebashi Bridge in front of the Osaka Asahi Newspaper Building, one of the representative modernist buildings of the early Shōwa era. The work has become a defining image of the sophisticated urban lifestyle that permeated Japan’s major cities in the early 1930s. Mizusawa Tsutomu, director of the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, describes it as a “masterwork that anyone would include among Kageyama Kōyō’s representative [photographs] for it reaches a [high] level of accomplishment with the reserved juxtaposition of light and dark, the clear, pared-down composition, [an image] that it is not an exaggeration to describe as the essence of prewar modernism.”
Professor Samuel C. Morse, 2015
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urban; fashion; architecture; men; women Link to share this object record:
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