The Japan Foundation organizes an exhibition to showcase 123 black-and white photographs by 11 renowned photographers such as Ihee Kimura, Ken Domon and Eikoh Hosoe to make a retrospective review of the Japanese society with full of creativity and energy during the turbulent period spanning from 1945 to 1964 that followed the WWⅡ.

This exhibition has been reorganized as overseas traveling exhibition based on the acclaimed “Japan: A Self- Portrait” Exhibition that traveled to Setagaya Art Museum, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and other museums in Japan. Tsuguo Tada who is an editor of “Japan: A Self-Portrait Photographs 1945-1964” (published by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers) and Marc Feustel who is a Paris-based young leading specialist in the history of Japanese photography have arranged the exhibition into three sections - “The Aftermath of War”, “Between Tradition and Modernity” and “Towards a New Japan” to showcase the metamorphosis of Japan after the war.

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