Meeting Modernity 17
The Meeting Modernity series of found photographs is the focus of Néojaponisme’s first traveling exhibition. Recently unearthed outside of the city of Sano in Tochigi-ken, this series of pictures documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taishō Periods. The series is comprised of portrait photography in particular.
The exhibition makes it’s sophomore appearance at Reading Frenzy, a small press emporium and gallery in Portland, Oregon (kitty-corner from Powell’s Books) on this very Thursday.
Meeting Modernity is accompanied by a trio of essays by Ian Lynam, W. David Marx, and Matt Treyvaud reflecting the collection of photographs, the history of Japanese photography, commercial art, and Japanese society.
A limited edition of full-color Meeting Modernity postcard sets from the previous exhibition in Los Angeles’ Young Art will be available at Reading Frenzy.
MEETING MODERNITY
January 8–February 1 2009
Opening Reception:
Thursday January 8, 2009 6–9pm
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Reading Frenzy
921 SW Oak St.
Portland, OR 97205
If you are in Portland, we heartily encourage you to visit the exhibition.
January 11, 2009 at 8:05 am
Just went and saw your exhibit at the Reading Frenzy bookstore. The pictures were surprisingly small, but very entertaining. The one I liked most was a picture of 8 men dressed with pants and longsleeve shirts with rice hats working in (what appears to be) a rock quarry. These photos seem to represent an aspect of “working Japan” that appears often overlooked or passed by in historical accounts of the early Modern period. Thank you for exhibiting them here in Portland it was a real treat.
~Joshua Wheeler
Neojaponisme Reader
February 2, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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