Nude ヌード

OGAWA Gesshu 小川月舟

In contrast to Torokyo (cat. no. 62), a work by the same photographer in which the horizontal framing suggests a traditional Japanese scroll, in this work the extreme vertical framing suggests a tanzaku (long narrow card on which a Japanese poem is written). In the early 1920s, nudes were extremely rare. The bold trimming of the head and part of the back of the girl’s long, slender body are, however, rather than a return to Japanese tradition, an expression of Modernism with roots in European Japonisme.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Nude
Original title: ヌード
Artist Name: OGAWA Gesshu
Year: 1923
Material / Technique: Bromoil print
Accession number: 10020233
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