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Japanese photographs from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Scenes, signs, and sensations
Culture · Tuesday, October 6 · 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 past 80 years. The exhibition in brief Since the late 1960s, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has established itself as one of the Western institutions first to take an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese photography. Already proud of a remarkable collection…
