Mainichi Photography Award (1958) Japan Photo Critics Association Photographer of the Year Award (1958) Award of Arts (1959) Japan Journalist's Congress Award (1960)
Ken Domon (土門 拳, Domon Ken, 25 October 1909 – 15 September 1990) was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his work as a photojournalist and as a photographer of Buddhist temples and statuary.
Domon, who began his career in the 1930s contributing photo reportages to magazines that supported the increasingly militaristic Japanese state and its imperial policies, later criticized propaganda photography. His subsequent termination from the government agency he worked for spurred his career as a freelance photographer.
As photojournalists grappled with how to depict the new social reality of the post-WWII period, Domon forged the realistic photography movement (Riarizumu Shashin Undō). He embraced the idea of snapshot photography (sunappu), in which images could be captured with "absolute unstagedness".[1] Domon documented the aftermath of the war, focusing on society and the lives of ordinary people. He received national acclaim for his portraits of children in exploitative labor conditions and Hiroshima bomb survivors (hibakusha).
Domon was forced to abandon sunappu photography after he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1958. His major project until the end of his career was photographing temples across Japan, a much-beloved subject that he had first begun to document in 1940. These images constituted the monumental series Pilgrimage to Ancient Temples (Kojijunrei), published in five volumes from 1963 to 1975.
^Ken Domon, "Riarizumu shashin to saron pikuchā" (Photographic Realism and the Salon Picture), Camera, October 1953, translated by Ivan Vartanian in Ivan Vartanian, Akihiro Hatanaka, and Yutaka Kanabayashi (ed.), Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers, New York, Aperture, 2005, p.22-27., p. 22.
KenDomon (土門 拳, DomonKen, 25 October 1909 – 15 September 1990) was a celebrated Japanese photographer known for his work as a photojournalist and as...
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remember his legacy. Dokyumentarī no jidai: Natori Yōnosuke, Kimura Ihee, DomonKen, Miki Jun no shashin kara (ドキュメンタリーの時代：名取洋之助・木村伊兵衛・土門 拳・三木淳の写真から) / The...
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design Hiroshima-Nagasaki Document 61 (1962), a photobook of works by KenDomon and Shо̄mei Tо̄matsu.: 140 In 1970, Awazu published a manga titled Sutetaro...
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