Hilltop in the evening, Germany 夕陽の丘 (独逸にて)

YASUMOTO Koyo 安本江陽

From 1931 to 1932, the photographer, who operated a commercial photography studio in Fukuoka, joined a group of photographers, including KIMURA Senichi and NAKAYAMA Masakazu, in a trip around the world to investigate the state of photography in Europe and America. For this work, a print was made of a photograph taken during that trip, bent into a curve, and the print itself photographed. The poetic qualities of the image evoke a fairy-tale world and capture in a single image the exoticism and aspiration that foreign countries represented for this photographer.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Hilltop in the evening, Germany
Original title: 夕陽の丘 (独逸にて)
Artist Name: YASUMOTO Koyo
Year: 1931
Dimensions: 96x109mm
Accession number: 10011333
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