Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Photo Avant-garde Nagoya at the Nagoya City Museum of Art in 1989.

Emerging in the 1930s from the influence of overseas modernism and alongside other groups such as the Naniwa Photo Club in Kansai (Kiyoshi Koishi, Hanawa Ginware, etc.), Ashiya Photo Club (Iwata Nakayama, etc.), and Tampei Photo Club (Nakaji Yasui, etc.), Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde included photographers such as Minoru Sakata, who is known for “modeling photography”, Yoshio Shimozato, a painter who is famous for Mesemu Zoku: Chogenjitsushugi Shashi-shu, Kansuke Yamamoto, who was also active in VOU, and Tsugio Tajima.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.