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[Tokyo, Taito-ku, Hanakawado Sumida Park]

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Japanese Photographer · 1925–2019

Originally from the city of Ōita, Shigeichi Nagano graduated from Tokyo's Keio University with a degree in economics and prepared to enter the corporate world of white-collar work. Hired for an editorial job at *Shukan Sun* News magazine in the late 1940s, he soon left to become a photographer after observing some of Japan's finest photojournalists from that post. Within ten years he was chronicli

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Date: 1991
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: Japanese
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Since the 1950s Shigeichi Nagano has observed the perpetual rebuilding of Tokyo and created photographs that underscore the evolution of Japan's capital city. His images showcase the built environment in Tokyo as a melting pot of traditional and modern architecture, revealing the city as simultaneously intimate and immense in scale. Capturing residents of Tokyo as they walk the streets and perform routine activities, Nagano reveals how people interact with their surroundings and how they exist in this fast, densely populated capital. His photographs also suggest how the urban landscape of Tokyo reflects a duality between Japan's historic past and its contemporary, forward-looking ambitions.

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