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Kansuke Yamamoto (山本 悍右, Yamamoto Kansuke, 30 March 1914 – 2 April 1987) was a photographer and poet. He was a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan.

Kansuke Yamamoto
(山本 悍右)
Born
山本 勘助(Kansuke Yamamoto)

(1914-03-30)30 March 1914
Nagoya, Japan
Died2 April 1987(1987-04-02) (aged 73)
Nagoya, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Known forPhotographer, poet
MovementSurrealism

Biography



Birth


He was born in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. He was the oldest son of Goro Yamamoto (1880–1941), who was the founding member of Aiyu Photography Club. Goro was running a photo studio and a shop selling cameras in Nagoya.


Encounter with Surrealism


Dokuritsu(Independent)January 1932Published by Independent Photography Research AssociationCover photo by Kansuke Yamamoto
"Dokuritsu(Independent)"January 1932
Published by Independent Photography Research Association
Cover photo by Kansuke Yamamoto

He encountered surrealism and dadaism through the poetry magazine "cine´" published by Yamanaka Chiruu who was promoting surrealism in Japan. At the age of 15, he started to write poems. He graduated from the Nagoya Second Commercial School in 1929. That year, he started writing poetry. He left Meiji University School of Arts and letters in Tokyo, where he majored in French Literature before graduation and then went back to Nagoya. In 1931, at the age of 17, he published his works in the Journal "Dokuritsu(Independent)", which was published by "Dokuritsu Shashin Kenkyu Kai(Independent Photography Research Association)".


Kansuke Yamamoto as a Surrealist


The Night's Fountain Vol.11 November 1938Edited and published by:Kansuke YamamotoPhoto by Kansuke Yamamoto
"The Night's Fountain" Vol.1
1 November 1938
Edited and published by:Kansuke Yamamoto
Photo by Kansuke Yamamoto
VOU Vol.30 1940Cover photo by Kansuke Yamamoto
"VOU" Vol.30 1940
Cover photo by Kansuke Yamamoto

The oldest of his existing works is called "Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten・・・Moya to Shinshitsu(The Developing Thought of a Human...Mist and Bedroom)", which was published in a magazine in 1932. In 1936, he changed his Chinese characters from 勘助(Kansuke) to 悍右(Kansuke). In 1938, he started a surrealist poetry magazine called "Yoru no Funsui(The Night's Fountain)". But the next year, the publication was forced to be discontinued by the authoritative pressure due to the Peace Preservation Law.

In 1939, he formed a group called "Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde" with Tajima Tsugio, Minoru Sakata, Shimozato Yoshio, and Yamanaka Chiruu, etc. The group applied surrealism into their photographs and their avant-garde photography gathered national attention by some magazines like "Photo Times" and "Camera Art". He became a member of "VOU" in 1939, belonging until it was dissolved in 1972. He also formed "VIVI" (1948–1950), "Bijyutsu Bunka Association, Division of Photography" (1949–1954), "Mado(Windows)"(1953–1958), "Honoo (Flame)" (1955–1961), "Subjective Photography Federation of Japan" (1956), "ESPACE" (1956–1958), "Arukishine" (1958), "Avant-Garde Association of Poets" (1958) and "Nagoya Five" (1963–1964).

He often created works which indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealistic ways.


Later life


From around 1965 to 1975, he coached the younger generation as an adviser of Chubu Photography Federation of Students.

He also donated his body to science via Nagoya University School of Medicine upon his death and no funeral was held, in accordance with his living will.


Works



Exhibitions


Kansuke YAMAMOTO Exhibition 1956. Tokyo & Nagoya .
Kansuke YAMAMOTO Exhibition 1956. Tokyo & Nagoya .
MASTERS OF THE CAMERA : THE JAPANESE AVANT GARDE, YAMAMOTO KANSUKE, published in NEXUS vol.24, Dayton OH. U.S.A. 1989
MASTERS OF THE CAMERA : THE JAPANESE AVANT GARDE, YAMAMOTO KANSUKE, published in NEXUS vol.24, Dayton OH. U.S.A. 1989
YAMAMOTO Kansuke exhibition at Tokyo Station Gallery, 2001
YAMAMOTO Kansuke exhibition at Tokyo Station Gallery, 2001
Kansuke Yamamoto exhibition 2006. STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO.
Kansuke Yamamoto exhibition 2006. STEPHEN WIRTZ GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO.
Paris Photo 2015 amanasalto. Works by Kansuke Yamamoto
Paris Photo 2015 amanasalto. Works by Kansuke Yamamoto
Kansuke Yamamoto exhibition 2017 Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Kansuke Yamamoto exhibition 2017 Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Work by KANSUKE YAMAMOTO. Icarus's Episode, 1949
Work by KANSUKE YAMAMOTO. "Icarus's Episode," 1949

Solo exhibition catalogues



Books by Kansuke Yamamoto


Butterfly 1970Author: Kansuke Yamamoto
"Butterfly" 1970
Author: Kansuke Yamamoto

Selected works


Beautiful Passerby 1956
Beautiful Passerby 1956

Bibliography



Exhibition catalogues



Books



Articles



Videos



See also



References


  1. Suzanne Muchnic, "At the Getty, a focus on Asian photographs", Los Angeles Times, 15 April 2009
  2. The J. Paul Getty Trust 2009 Report(pdf)
  3. Taylor Mignon, "A ‘subversive’ finally brought in from the cold", Japan Times, 15 August 2001
  4. Surrealistic Effects of War The New Modern Look at Japanese Photography Archived 10 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine – Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  5. Alissa J. Anderson, "Before and After the Bomb/ The New Modern: Pre- and Post-War Japanese Photography", Santa Barbara Independent, 1 February 2007
  6. Drawing Surrealism(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
  7. Roberta Smith, "Squiggles From the Id or Straight From the Brain / ‘Drawing Surrealism’ at the Morgan Library and Museum", The New York Times, 24 January 2013
  8. Getty Exhibition Presents Two Sides of Modern Japanese Photography / Japan's Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and Kansuke Yamamoto (March 26 – August 25, 2013) Archived 4 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine – The J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center
  9. Richard B. Woodward, "The Realist and the Surrealist", The Wall Street Journal, 3 April 2013
  10. Kansuke Yamamoto 1914 – 1987 | Tate Archived 26 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine – Tate Modern
  11. @apmoa (19 October 2021). "10/17付NIKKEI The STYLEの「美の枠」で坂田稔、山本悍右、下郷羊雄、後藤敬一郎ら戦前名古屋の前衛写真が取り上げられていました。紙面図版は名古屋市美術館さんの所蔵品ですが、偶然にも、現在愛知県美ではコレクション展(…" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  12. “Surrealism Beyond Borders” | The Metropolitan Museum of Art- Taka Ishii Gallery News

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Kansuke Yamamoto (山本 悍右, Yamamoto Kansuke, 30 de marzo de 1914 – 2 de abril de 1987) fue un fotógrafo y poeta japonés. Su trabajo más conocido se enmarca en el Surrealismo.

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Kansuke Yamamoto (山本 悍右, Yamamoto Kansuke, 30 mars 1914 – 2 avril 1987) est un photographe et poète japonais.



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