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One of my favorite books I read last year was "Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan," which tr
by glup 8y ago
One of my favorite books I read last year was "Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan," which traced the development of the Japanese middle class in relation to photography— how people learned to consume collectively, developed a distinct aesthetic from Western photographers, and the gender dynamics of adoption of a new technology.