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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography

Oct 11, 2019 – Mar 22, 2020
380 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N4, Canada

The exhibition titled “Hanran,” Japanese for deluge or flood, presents photography that documents the 1930s to the 1990s, decades of complex and unrelenting change that include, of course, the nuclear devastation of 1945. On view for the first time outside Japan, this work, by 28 photographers, captures a social and political turmoil unlike that experienced by any other nation. —E.C.

Hayashi Tadahiko, “Female Air Defence Correspondents Standing in a Row.” Courtesy of the Yokohama Museum of Art.