The body as a screen
Subtitle: Japanese art photography of the 1990s
By: Lena Fritsch
Series: Studien zur Kunstgeschichte -- Bd. 192; Studien zur Kunstgeschichte -- Bd. 192.
Publisher: Georg Olms
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hildesheim
Language: ger
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9783487146799
Subjects: Photography of the human body; Photography; History; Artistic Photography
Description: This book examines the human body as a motif in Japanese photographic art of the 1990s, with particular reference to socio-cultural issues. Lena Fritsch analyses photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako, Izima Kaoru, Mori Mariko, Morimura Yasumasa, Yamanaka Manabu and Yanagi Miwa, focussing on problems of social and national identity, gender and religion. 00.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis--Universität Bonn, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.