: The medium evolved from European-influenced pictorialism and the German Bauhaus style into a tool for imperial military propaganda during World War II.
Moriyama’s seminal 1972 book, Farewell Photography ( Sashin yo Sayonara ), is the ultimate realization of this era. It features extremely degraded, high-contrast, nearly abstract black-and-white images that questioned the very nature of what a photograph is supposed to be. 🎨 Masterpieces of the Medium japanese photobook