64 Geijutsu Shashin Photographs.
YOSHIZAKI Gyoson (1968.)
£4500.00
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A NOSTALGIC COLLECTION OF ART (GEIJUTSU) PHOTOGRAPHY
Gelatine-Silver prints. Various sizes (between ca. 22 x 26cm to ca. 30 x 25cm, some mounted, some loose). Overall in very good condition. [Tokyo], 1956 to
This collection of prints by Yoshizaki (dates unknown) documents scenes from rural Kansai, mostly between 1964 and 1968, with a few from the mid-1950s. The locations include Okayama, Kyoto, Mie, Nara and Hyogo. Yamato in Kanagawa makes a frequent appearance, as Yoshizaki kept returning to the area to document its landscape. Together the photographs express a sense of nostalgia and ‘bonyari’, or pleasant idleness, of countryside life.
Yoshizaki Gyoson was a regular contributor to Kodaisha’s ‘Geijutsu Shashin kenkyu’, a monthly photomagazine which ran until 1970. It continued to fly the Pictorialist flag, until the failing health of Nakajima Kenkichi halted publication.
Stock Code: 206254
