left¡ËSAITOH Koichi, 'Konosuke Matsushita', 1975
right¡ËMATSUMOTO Norihiko, 'Fubuki Koshiji from Long Recital at Nissei Theater',1971
¢£Period¡§June 30, to August 19,2007
¢£Closed Day¡§Monday(Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
¢£Venue¡§Exhibition Gallery, 3F
¢£Admission¡§Adults ¡ï500¡Ê400¡Ë¡¿College Students ¡ï400¡Ê320¡Ë¡¿High School and Junior Hight School Students, Over 65 ¡ï250¡Ê200¡Ë
¢¨The figure in parentheses refers to a group discount rate applicable to groups of 20 people or more . ¢¨Admission is free of charge for disabled persons and their caretakers ¢¨Admission is free of charge for members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. ¢¨Admission is free of charge for persons aged 65 or older on the third Wednesday of each month.
¡ÈShowa: Photography 1945-1989, Part Two¡É Features a Panoply of Heroes and Heroines
Almost twenty years have passed since the Japanese era name changed from ¡ÆShowa¡Ç to ¡ÆHeisei¡Ç. Japan has undergone numerous changes since the end of the Second World War, from the reconstruction of the cities to the transformation of people¡Çs lifestyles, but how did the photographers of the time record and express this in their work?
Divided into four sections, the ¡ÈShowa: Photography 1945-1989¡É exhibition aims to introduce the tumultuous years of the Showa period through approximately six hundred photographs, selected from the museum¡Çs collection of over twenty-three thousand. The second section of the series features the heroes and heroines who symbolized this time in Japanese history.
From athletes to actors, singers to politicians, this exhibition will show the shining heroes and heroines who were active during the period from 1955 - 1974. Chosen from the museum¡Çs collection of over twenty-three thousand photographs, it will present these energetic heroes and heroines as they were captured in portraits by the photographers of the time. We hope that through these images of the heroes and heroines who became the faces of their times, you will be able to experience directly, the enthusiasms of the tumultuous years of the mid-Showa period.
ISHIMOTO Yasuhiro, 'Portrait #215' (with Ken Takakura and Junko Fuji), 1968
