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関東大震災画帖

1923 · 文成社 · 17 pictures

A 1923 Japanese photographic album published by Bunseisha documenting the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake, with black-and-white halftone photographs of ruined city districts, burning streets and crowds of onlookers. The pictures show widespread rubble, collapsed brick buildings and smoke rising over flattened neighbourhoods, offering a designer stark documentary compositions of destruction, with dense debris textures and small figures set against large ruined vistas.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library