Constructed Reality Historical Photographer Presentation

Kansuke Yamamoto



Born March 30, 1914  he was a seminal experimental photographer, a poet, and a prominent Japanese Surrealist. Born in Nagoya, Japan to Goro Yamamoto who was a founding member of Aiyu Photography Kansuke was the oldest. though the poetry magazine "Cine' "by Yamanaka Chiruu Kansuke encountered both surrealism and dadaim. He graduated from Nagoya Second Commercial School in 1929 and the Meiji University School of Arts and letters in Tokyo with a major in French literature. His work was published in many different magazines and journals one was the Independent (in English) by the Independent Photography Association when he was 17. He coached the younger generation as an adviser of Chubu Photography Federation of Students from 1965 to 1975. He died April 2, 1987
He was active between the eras of the daguerreotype and the disposable camera 1931 to 1987. the work he created indicated liberty, antiwar and anti-government in surrealist ways. He used highly aesthetic imagery that had such a strangeness and transgressive nature to it that it was considered threating causing presecution by the Tokko (Thought Police).
What I liked about his work was how simple it looked yet how strange it felt like after looking at it for a little you get uneasy about it.