Giving Birth to a Joke

Kansuke YamamotoWW-1956-028559

1956·Gelatin silver print·Image/paper: 42.6 × 55.7 cm (16 13/16 × 21 15/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1956
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 42.6 × 55.7 cm (16 13/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Kansuke Yamamoto

Artist

Kansuke Yamamoto

Mixed Media

Kansuke Yamamoto was a Japanese avant-garde poet-photographer, editor, and publisher based in Nagoya. His Surrealist photography and photomontage developed in dialogue with international modernism as it circulated into Japan in the 1930s and 1940s, and has been discussed in transnational histories of Surrealism and modern photography that move beyond Paris-centered narratives.

Nagoya, Japan

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