Nakaji Yasui
Nakaji Yasui was one of the most prominent photographers in the first half of the 20th century in Japan.
Life
Yasui was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club in 1920s and also became a member of the Tampei Photography Club in 1930.His photographs cover a wide range from pictorialism to straight photography, including photomontages. He appreciated every type and kind of photographs without any prejudice and tried not to reject any of them even during wartime.
Works
- Displaced Jews photographs of Jewish people who fled from the Nazis to Kobe in the 1930s — in collaboration with several other photographers in the Tampei Shashin Club, such as Osamu Shiihara, Kaneyoshi Tabuchi and Tōru Kōno
- Yamane Circus Group series
Exhibitions in Japan
- Nakaji Yasui at Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery, 1987
- Nakaji Yasui at Watarium, Tokyo, 1993
- Nakaji Yasui 1903–1942, The Photography at Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo and Nagoya City Art Museum, 2004 and 2005