Play with Photography by Ueda Shoji and Jacques Henri Lartigue
Date: 23 Nov 2013 - 26 Jan 2014
Ueda and Lartique shared a lifelong delight in the essence of amateur photography, the sheer joy of taking photographs. Their works transcend differences between Japanese and French culture and pose the same question: What, after all is the human significance of photography? This exhibition is more than a retrospective devoted to the work of two photographers who became giants in their field. It offers a glimpse of the period when modern photography was reaching maturity. It allows us to examine the works of these two great photographers, both individually and in relation to each other, asking how each is unique and yet representative of the times in which it was taken.
This exhibition is a joint production of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue in France and combines works from the collection that Lartique donated to the nation of France at his death with works by Shoji Ueda from our own collection. This exhibition is organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the Asahi Shimbun-sha in special collaboration with Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue.
