Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya’s ‘Snow Land’ Photographs

This article analyses the Snow Land photographic series by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Hamaya [1915–1999] in relation to issues of modernity, nostalgia and discourses of agrarianism in 1940s and 1950s Japan. Hamaya is one of Japan’s most celebrated and influential documentary photographers at both...

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Main Author: Ross Tunney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Japan Foundation, Sydney 2015-06-01
Series:New Voices in Japanese Studies
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Online Access:http://newvoices.org.au/volume-7/imaging-the-rural-modernity-and-agrarianism-in-hiroshi-hamayas-snow-land-photographs/