Photography for Everyone by Kerry Ross
English | 15 July 2015 | ISBN: 0804794235, 0804795649 | 232 Pages | True AZW3 (Kindle)/(EPUB/PDF conv) | 32.65 MB
The Japanese passion for photography is almost a cliche, but how did it begin? Although Japanese art photography has been widely studied this book is the first to demonstrate how photography became an everyday activity. Japan’s enthusiasm for photography emerged alongside a retail and consumer revolution that marketed products and activities that fit into a modern, tasteful, middle-class lifestyle. Kerry Ross examines the magazines and merchandise promoted to ordinary Japanese people in the early twentieth century that allowed Japanese consumers to participate in that lifestyle, and gave them a powerful tool to define its contours.
