Ihei Kimura Exhibition

Kahitsukan - Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art

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Ihei Kimura is a crucial figure in modern Japanese photography. He loved and captured people's lives and culture for his entire life.
In 1929, he acquired a Leica camera and started breaking a new ground of photojournalism. In addition, his encounter with "The Decisive Moment" by Henri Cartier-Bresson enhanced the sophistication of his photography.
The Showa era was the unstable time that experienced warfare. On the contrary, his photographs from this time period depict calmness. His series taken in Okinawa and Akita prefectures are especially known for heightening the bar of photojournalism.
This exhibition features 70 selected works and consists of six themes: "Before the War", "After the War", "People's Town", "Japan", "Portraits" and "Akita". The warmness of the Showa era emerges from Japanese culture, landscapes and people's lives that seem to fade away in contemporary Japan.

[Image: "O-magari Obako" (1953)]