The best photography show in town is also the American debut for the Japanese photographer Tamiko Nishimura, who is in her mid-70s.
The photographs in Journeys, mostly from the 1970s, feature sharply oblique angles, grainy surfaces and subjects largely women and children turned away from their viewers.
There are echoes of the French master Eugene Atget and the Surrealists in Nishimura's work, aligning with the radical Japanese Provoke movement and Daido Moriyama's critical view of Japan.
Nishimura's exhibition serves as a window into the art and craft of Japanese photography in the 20th century, with a sly, insurgently feminist perspective.
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