In Focus: Tokyo August 5�December 14, 2014 at the Getty CenterNEW

Drawn from the Getty Museum's collection, this one�gallery exhibition of photographs presents four responses to the dense, hyperreal megalopolis that is Tokyo (illustrated exhibition checklist, 7 PP, 246KB). Although a kaleidoscopic vision would seem to be required to represent this stratified, vertical capital, the Japanese photographers featured in this show have found a way to portray their city at human scale.

Shigeichi Nagano observes the interactions of community within a perpetually rebuilt environment, as he has since the 1950s. Masato Seto focuses on the hard�won leisure of local couples escaping the cramped quarters of high�rise living for the scarce green space of public parks. Daid� Moriyama haunts the burgeoning neighborhood of Shinjuku for fragments of nightlife that he renders in exaggerated contrasts of black and white. Mikiko Hara adopts a quiet, daylit, snapshot style to spontaneously capture anonymous portraits of her young contemporaries in the streets and subways.

Date
Aug 5, 2014 - Dec 14, 2014

Holiday closures: January 1, Thanksgiving, and December 25 (Christmas Day)

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