Kansuke Yamamoto ( Yamamoto Kansuke , March 30, 1914 - 2 April 1987) is a photographer and poet. He is a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan.
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Biography
Born
He was born in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. He is the eldest son of Goro Yamamoto (1880-1941), who is a founding member of the Aiyu Photography Club. Goro runs photo studios and stores that sell cameras in Nagoya.
Meeting with Surrealism
He discovered surrealism and dadaism through the "cineÃ,Â" poem magazine published by Yamanaka Chiruu promoting surrealism in Japan. At the age of 15, he began writing poetry. He graduated from Nagoya Second Commercial School in 1929. That year, he began writing poetry. He left the Meiji University Art School and a letter in Tokyo, where he majored in French Literature before graduating and then returned to Nagoya. In 1931, at the age of 17, he published his works in the Journal " Dokuritsu ( Independent )", published by "Dokuritsu Shashin Kenkyu Kai (Independent Photographic Research Association) ".
Kansuke Yamamoto as surrealist
The oldest of his existing works is called "Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten" Moya for Shinshitsu (The Developing Thought of a Human... Mist and Bedroom) ", published in a magazine in 1932. In the year 1936, he changed his Chinese character from ?? (Kansuke) to be ?? (Kansuke). In 1938, he started a surrealist magazine called "Yoru no Funsui (The Night's Fountain)". But the following year, the publication had to be stopped by authoritative pressure due to the Law of Peace Conservation.
In 1939, he formed a group called "Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde" with Tajima Tsugio, Minoru Sakata, Shimozato Yoshio, and Yamanaka Chiruu, etc. The group applied Surrealism into their photos and their avant-garde photography garnered national attention by magazines such as "Photo Times" and "Camera Art". He became a member of "VOU" in 1939, property until it was dissolved in 1972. He also formed "VIVI" (1948-1950), "Bijyutsu Bunka Association, Division of Photography" (1949-1954), "Mado (Windows)" (1956-1958), "Honozo (Flame)" (1955-1961), "Subjective Photography of the Japanese Federation" (1956), "ESPACE" (1956-1958), "Arukishine" (1958), "Avant - Garde Association of Poets "(1958) and" Nagoya Five "(1963-1964).
He often creates works that show freedom, anti-war and anti-government in surrealistic ways.
Next life
From about 1965 to 1975, he trained the younger generation as adviser to the Chubu Photography Federation of Students.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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