Japan Modern: Photography from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck Collection and Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography are on view at the Freer|Sackler through January 21. “Seikan Ferryboat” ...

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There's no way you can really reduce the photographic history of a place to just a few artists, let alone two. But the curators at an L.A. museum... There's no way you can really reduce the ...

One of the most fascinating chapters in American art from the first half of the 20th century is also among the least known. The details of its efflorescence may never be fully grasped, regardless of ...

Road by Ono Tadashige, 1954 On loan from the Ken and Kiyo Hitch Collection Kobe Port Kawanishi Hide, 1953 On loan from the Ken and Kiyo Hitch Collection City 119 by Kimura Risabur, 1969 On loan from ...

The significance of the Meiji Restoration, an important political period in Japanese history credited for ushering in an era of major political and social change continues to be debated extensively, ...

The years that immediately followed 1968—with the political and social implications that ’68 epitomized for western countries and beyond—were equally transformative for Japanese photographers. 1968 is ...

This photograph by Shomei Tomatsu of actress Eiko Ashima is blown up to wall size for “The Provoke Era: Japanese Photography From the Collection of SFMOMA ...

Back in the 1970s, the screenwriters Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck were riding through the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on their way to a set of the film director Akira Kurosawa. The visitors ...

What did it mean to be modern, for nations and people, in the early 20th century? One salient aspect of modernity is the dynamic, shifting roles and identity of men and women within society, the ...

A photograph can reveal a lot about people and the places where they live. But, as Emiko Jozuka writes for Motherboard, it can also deceive. Photographs from 19th-century Japan portray an "exoticised" ...

The Japanese garden is not merely a garden – it is a spiritual landscape, layered with cultural and religious references. Rooted in philosophies such as Shinto, Buddhism and Daoism, these gardens have ...