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Kineo Kuwabara
桑原甲子雄 · 桑原甲子雄
Facts
- Life
- 9 December 1913 – 10 December 2007
- Nationality
- Japanese
Style, as we read it
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An amateur who walked Tokyo in 1936 with a Leica and, decades later as an editor, published those negatives as Tokyo, Showa 11 (1974). Plain frontal pictures of a city that was about to disappear.
- Colour
- Black and white, neutral prints.
- Composition
- Frontal, centred, the street as a stage set.
- Light
- Flat daylight.
- Tone
- Even, moderate contrast.
- Texture
- Fine, documentary.
- Mood
- Plain, nostalgic in hindsight, unhurried.
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