We are open today.(10:00－18:00)
新聞少年たち−ハンプシャー通り487番地のハリー・ベッカー12歳とマックス・ベッカー9歳は、放課後から夜９時まで新聞を売る。１日10セ ントから12セントを稼ぐ。マサチューセッツ州ローレンス 1910年11月 東京都写真美術館蔵

2F

Dreaming of Tomorrow:

Social Documentaries that Moved American society

Nov. 27, 2004—Jan. 16, 2005

  • Nov. 27, 2004—Jan. 16, 2005
  • Closed Monday(if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day)
  • Admission：Adults ￥600／College Students ￥500／High School and Junior High School Students,Over 65 ￥300

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography has organized an exhibition entitled “Dreaming of Tomorrow: Social Documentaries that Moved American Society.” From past to present, every society faces numerous problems. History remembers the achievements of those who first notice these problems, bring them to public attention and awaken social movements. Among the most notable are the photographers whose cameras stare unflinchingly at social reality, becoming weapons in the struggle for improvement.
In this exhibition we seek the roots of documentary photography in the amazing achievements of Social documentary, a photographic movement that spanned the end of the 19th century and extended into the first half of the 20th century in America.

ウォーカー・エヴァンズ 鉱夫の家、ウェスト・ヴァージニア州モーガンタウン付近 1936年 東京都写真美術館蔵

Walker EVANS, A Miner's Home, Vicinity Motgantown, West Virginia, 1935, 
collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

Events

Gallery Talks (in Japanese)
Jan. 8 (Sat) 16:00～（30 min.）
Jan. 15 (Sat) 16:00～（30 min.）
Free with museum admission; no reservations required.