Anything Wrong! ナンデェ！！

HANAYA Kanbee ハナヤ勘兵衛

This work is a photomontage featuring MISHIMA Masao, who performed in Maxim Gorky’s The Lower Depths. The term “photomontage” is derived from montage, the French term for assemblage. It refers to overlapping and combining two or more images in a composite photograph. The bold combination of dynamic images in this photograph gives a sense of the photographer’s feelings about the depressed state of society. HANAYA Kanbee was born in Osaka and traveled to many parts of Asia, including Manchuria and Singapore, living for a year and a half in Shanghai before opening a studio in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture. That international experience may account for the modern, rather stateless feel of his work. His photomontages are strikingly impressive, and his Ships series, with compositions that slice across the print at an angle, give a sense of the impact of the Bauhaus and of Constructivism.

Collection of: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Title: Anything Wrong!
Original title: ナンデェ！！
Artist Name: HANAYA Kanbee
Year: 1937
Material / Technique: Gelatin silver print on developing-out paper
Dimensions: 555x420mm
Accession number: 10005882
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About the creator

ハナヤ勘兵衛 / HANAYA Kanbei

from Art Platform Japan: https://artplatform.go.jp/resources/collections/artists/A1778

Date of birth: 1903-01-12
Birth place: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture
Date of death: 1991-05-15
Medium: Photography
Gender: male
Update date: 2023-02-14

Identifiers

APJ ID: A1778
VIAF ID: 78678365
NDL ID: 00400546
AOW ID: _40555164
Wikidata ID: Q6360953

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