Avant-garde photography in Japan

Avant-garde photography in Japan refers to experimental photographic practices associated with Japan's interwar period and early wartime modernism, developing within and alongside the milieu of shinkō shashin (新興写真, "New Photography"). The phrase is used here as an umbrella term linking the broader interwar modernist milieu commonly described as shinkō shashin and the narrower late-1930s "zen'ei" moment in which "avant-garde photography" was explicitly debated and claimed as a public identity.

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