Photographs of Children
Children and War
May. 14—Jul. 10, 2011
- May. 14—Jul. 10, 2011
- Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
- Admission:Adults ¥500/College Students ¥400/High School and Junior Hight School Students,Over 65 ¥250
This year the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography will hold three exhibitions of works primarily from our collection, organized around "children" as our theme.
To photographers, children have been fascinating subjects ever since the invention of photography. Thus, by choosing "children" as our theme in exploring the works in our collection, we can examine how images of children have changed in ways that reflect changes in the course of history, what seems timeless in images of children, and how a photographer's distinctive eye and the social context are vividly expressed in the resulting work. These three perspectives inform all three of our exhibitions. Together they constitute what we call the emotional landscape of the child.
The first exhibition, Children and War, explores the role of photographs as images through two key terms: war and children. In this exhibition, we will look simultaneously at images of children in times and places where war is occurring and where it is not, to explore the depths of the images that emerge in these settings.
NAGAKURA Hiromi "Refugee children gather around a new-born baby" 1982
TOMATSU Shomei "Sisters, Tsukudajima, Tokyo" 1955
KUMAGAI Genichi "Munching on a roll" from First Grade 1953
TOMATSU Shomei "Shipboard Elementary School(1)", Fukagawa, Tokyo 1956
NAGANO Shigeichi "Children playing rockets on the site of an old gun battery in East Berlin",from Berlin:East and West 1960
ISHII Konosuke "War orphan: Mr. Kyushu" 1946
KAGEYAMA Koyo "Family Portrait, at Prayers for the Wheat Harvest" 1946