Harvest 収穫

FUCHIKAMI Hakuyo 淵上白陽

The photographer, who made expressionism his trademark, created this photograph the year before he left Japan for Manchuria. His subjects are two peasant women, who appear to have been shot from a low angle. During the enlargement they were then stretched further in the vertical, resulting in the deformation we see. The combination of sepia tint and rag-wipe retouching is shot through with the photographer’s almost violent sympathy with working people’s lives. This image speaks of the heat of his passion for the “human art” he pursued.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Harvest
Original title: 収穫
Artist Name: FUCHIKAMI Hakuyo
Year: 1927
Material / Technique: Gelatin silver print on developing-out paper
Dimensions: 290x243mm
Accession number: 10103902
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Metadata

About the creator

淵上白陽 / FUCHIKAMI Hakuyō

from Art Platform Japan: https://artplatform.go.jp/resources/collections/artists/A1864

Date of birth: 1889-11-14
Birth place: Kumamoto Prefecture
Date of death: 1960-02-08
Medium: Photography
Gender: male
Update date: 2023-02-14

Identifiers

APJ ID: A1864
VIAF ID: 31888590
NDL ID: 00015152
ULAN ID: 500318008
AOW ID: _42240575
Wikidata ID: Q5640676

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