tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897792386478341350.post8931492381469241123..comments2024-01-12T12:09:07.676-05:00Comments on PhotoEphemera: Yasuhiro Ishimoto and The Document of Human RevolutionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897792386478341350.post-46457929060150635692024-01-12T12:09:07.676-05:002024-01-12T12:09:07.676-05:00Nice post thanks for ssharingNice post thanks for ssharingTobias Peggshttps://tobiaspeggs.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897792386478341350.post-69097881473532390702011-02-20T22:38:39.509-05:002011-02-20T22:38:39.509-05:00To be clear, the photographs of the president and ...To be clear, the photographs of the president and his family--candids in a socialist-realist sort of way--are by Tomiyama Haruo.Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221912449472888279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897792386478341350.post-90711775977322739032011-02-20T22:33:34.567-05:002011-02-20T22:33:34.567-05:00Yes, half of the book is photographs of the then-p...Yes, half of the book is photographs of the then-president of the lay organization that built the temple. You can see an example on the belly band of the cover at the top of the post. They're mostly hagiographic, idealizing him as a man of the people, with his adoring family always at his side. I don't know that much about the history of the organization but I believe that he was part of the problem that led to the organization being banned and the temple destroyed. Don't know his name off hand but the whole story is fascinating.Donhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00221912449472888279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897792386478341350.post-21969005941127906782011-02-19T11:01:40.897-05:002011-02-19T11:01:40.897-05:00I haven't seen this book. (I'd thought tha...I haven't seen this book. (I'd thought that more of it was about the plutocrat Ikeda, and thus had avoided it.) And therefore I don't know who did what within it. But the book gives equal billing to two photographers, the other being <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Tomiyama" rel="nofollow">Tomiyama Haruo</a>. Tomiyama doesn't seem to have impinged on the consciousness of people outside Japan, which is a pity, as his big book <i>Sadogashima</i> is good, and his earlier work (often anthologized) of scenes in the city can be fine too, sort of halfway between early Takanashi and Elliott Erwitt.Microcordnoreply@blogger.com