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Fifty years after the end of World War II, Paul Graham (b. 1956) explores the effects of total defeat and unconditional surrender on contemporary Japanese culture. By visualizing the apparent contradictions surrounding Japan’s political and economic roles in the world during this period, Paul Graham constructs powerfully evocative juxtapositions: a young girl and an elderly statesman, an atomic flash and a candy wrapper, or a fragment of an old photograph and a cherry blossom. Photographed in close-up, the smallest details act as powerful psychological triggers, exploring what appears to be a collective amnesia that has emerged in Japanese culture since the end of World War II.
Published by Scalo, 1995
32.5 cm 24.5 cm 96 pages, in good condition
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Fifty years after the end of World War II, Paul Graham (b. 1956) explores the effects of total defeat and unconditional surrender on contemporary Japanese culture. By visualizing the apparent contradictions surrounding Japan’s political and economic roles in the world during this period, Paul Graham constructs powerfully evocative juxtapositions: a young girl and an elderly statesman, an atomic flash and a candy wrapper, or a fragment of an old photograph and a cherry blossom. Photographed in close-up, the smallest details act as powerful psychological triggers, exploring what appears to be a collective amnesia that has emerged in Japanese culture since the end of World War II.
Published by Scalo, 1995
32.5 cm 24.5 cm 96 pages, in good condition
ISBN
