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Japanese Photographs from the National Library of France. Scenes, Signs, Sensations
Culture · Wednesday, October 7 · 10:00 · Paris
Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand – Galerie 1, Quai François Mauriac
Free
Organized as part of the celebrations for the bicentennial of the birth of photography, this exhibition traces, through 300 works — including 250 photographic prints, mostly black and white, and about fifty rare books from the BnF collections — the evolution of photographic practice in Japan over the last 80 years. Brief exhibition overview By the late 1960s, the Bibliothèque nationale de France had already established itself as one of the leading Western institutions to take an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese photography. Already proud of a remarkable…
