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Realism Photography is an important thread within the history of photography. It can be understood as a Japanese photographic discourse developed from the 1930s to the 1950s. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Ken Domon's postwar call for "realist photography" grew out of two dissatisfactions: the salon photography of the prewar years, with its emphasis on technical prettiness, and his own experience participating in wartime propaganda imagery.
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