1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1909–1990 · JAPAN
Ken Domon
Strict realism, from social documentary to Buddhist temples.
- Born
- 1909
- Died
- 1990
- Country
- Japan
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1958Hiroshima
- 1960Children of Chikuho
- 1963Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples (Koji Junrei)
WHY THEY MATTER
Forged the postwar realistic photography movement in Japan; Mainichi Photography Award; the Domon Ken Award, given since 1981, is named after him.
THE LIFE
Domon was born in Sakata and began as a photojournalist for the magazine NIPPON in the 1930s, a role he later criticised as propaganda. After the war he led the realistic photography movement, favouring unstaged snapshots. His most powerful pictures show survivors of the Hiroshima bombing and the children of a poor coal-mining community in Chikuho. After a stroke in 1958 he devoted himself to photographing temples, published as Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples.
Also born in 1900–1929
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