Zen'ei shashin (前衛写真; "avant-garde photography") is a Japanese term used in the late 1930s to name and debate experimental photography in Japan, particularly where modernist practice intersected with Surrealist ideas under intensifying wartime cultural controls. The label overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, the broader interwar modernist current known as shinkō shashin (新興写真, "New Photography").
Zen'ei shashin (前衛写真; "avant-garde photography") is a Japanese term used in the late 1930s to name and debate experimental photography in Japan, particularly where modernist practice intersected with Surrealist ideas under intensifying wartime cultural controls. The label overlaps with, but is not synonymous with, the broader interwar modernist current known as shinkō shashin (新興写真, "New Photography").
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