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Passings: Ikko Narahara, Celebrated Japanese Post-War Photographer, Dies at 88

By David Schonauer   Monday February 10, 2020

Ikko Narahara, the pioneering Japanese postwar photographer and cofounder of the influential documentary group VIVO, died on January 19 at the age of 88, reports Art News. Narahara found international acclaim through black-and-white images that often captured the impact of modernity on closed-off communities—a women’s prison in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture …

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