Photography and Japan

We cite from the COVER:
"In Photography and Japan, Karen M. Fraser argues that the diversity of styles, subjects and functions of Japanese photography precludes easy categorization along national lines. Instead, she shows that the development of photography within Japan is best understood by examining its close relationship with the country's dramatic cultural, political and social history."
"The 150 years of photography that are covered in this book comprise a time span in which Japan has experienced some of the most significant events in modern history and made a remarkable transformation from an isolated, feudal country into an industrialized, modern world power -a transformation that has included a striking rise and fall as an imperial power during the first half of the twentieth century and a miraculous economic recovery in the decades following the devastation of the Second World War. This history by Karen M. Fraser has paralleled these events, inextricably linking photography with notions of modernity and cultural change."
"Through thematic chapters that focus on photography's role in negotiating cultural identity, representations of war and the documentation of urban life, Photography and Japan introduces many images that will be unfamiliar to Western viewers and provides a broadened context for those photos that are better known."
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