Ken Domon
Ken Domon , born with Sakata in 1909, and deceased with Yamagata in 1990, is a photographer Japanese.
He studied the right to Nihon University of Tokyo, of which he was excluded in 1932 because of his political activity within the dispute paysanne.
In 1933, he becomes assistant-photographer of studio and in 1935, he enters the agency Japanese-Kobo, which he then leaves in 1939.
Starting from 1950, its humanistic ideas lead it to photograph the " symptômes" reality sociale.
Through several reports, in particular on the life of the children of minors to unemployment, it wishes that the company express " anger, pleasure or the sadness of the men of this temps".
In 1958, the realism of Domon is concretized in Hiroshima , work in which it photographs the survivors of the bomb atomique.
In parallel, it photographs Japanese traditional art, architecture, sculpture.
In 1983, is iauguré Ken Domon Memorial Museum in Sakata, its birthplace.
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