Senichi Kimura

Japanese: 木村専一 - きむらせんいち
Senichi Kimura

... The new Japanese photography movement known as "Shinko Shashin" (New Photography) in the early Showa period began with the import of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and Bauhaus photography theories that had developed in Germany after World War I. In 1930, Kimura Sen'ichi, editor-in-chief of the photography magazine "Photo Times," founded the Shinko Shashin Kenkyukai (New Photography Research Society), which put forward a positive stance in favor of the mechanism of photography and the objectivity of the lens's eye. This was based on the idea of ​​functionalist art advocated by Itagaki Takaho and Murayama Tomoyoshi at the time. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Kimura Senichi" is listed below.

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Japanese:

… 昭和初期に〈新興写真〉と呼ばれた日本の新しい写真の動きは,第1次世界大戦後のドイツで展開されていた新即物主義やバウハウスでの写真理論を輸入することから始まった。1930年に写真雑誌《フォトタイムス》の編集主幹だった木村専一によって〈新興写真研究会〉が結成され,写真のメカニズムやレンズの眼のもつ客観性を積極的に肯定する姿勢が打ち出された。それは,当時板垣鷹穂や村山知義らが主張していた機能主義の美術の思想を背景としている。…

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