Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hosts postwar Japanese photography exhibition

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According to Guardian Culture, the exhibition titled A Long Shadow: Postwar Japan Through the Lens is the first show of Japanese photography in more than three decades at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exhibition curator Lisa Sutcliffe explains that the display brings together 15 intergenerational artists alongside more than 25 books and magazines and a video installation, showing how Japanese photographers documented the country in the decades following the second world war. Running until 2 May 2027, the exhibition features works by artists such as Tōmatsu Shōmei, Ishiuchi Miyako, Ishikawa Mao, and Heshiki Kenshichi, exploring themes including US military bases, Okinawa, marginalized individuals, and the everyday lives of ordinary people and women.