Kansuke Yamamoto was a Japanese avant-garde poet-photographer, editor, and publisher based in Nagoya. His Surrealist photography and photomontage developed in dialogue with international modernism as
Gorō Yamamoto (left) and Kansuke Yamamoto (right), c. 1940.
Dokuritsu (Independent), January 1932. Published by the Independent Photography Research Association. Cover photo by Kansuke Yamamoto.
Dokuritsu (独立), B.2 (Apr. 1932): The Developing Thought of a Human Being—Mist and Bedroom (1932), by Kansuke Yamamoto.
Shūzō Takiguchi was a Japanese poet, art critic, and artist. He was a central figure in prewar and postwar Japanese Surrealism, helping introduce the movement through his 1930 translation of André Bre