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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| Language: | English |
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The Japan Foundation, Sydney
2015-06-01
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| 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/ |