Research: Context pt.1 (Visual)

I’ve been looking into photo montage and have come across Tsunehisa Kimura. He created many pieces of politically themed montages, a few of which I have attached below. I find his work particularly  contextually relevant not just for the technique to create it but also the idea’s behind it. My story is based within a human created post apocalyptic world, the process of this type of world being created can often been seen in not just Kimura’s work but that of many modern Japanese artists. Obvious events such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki and numerous devastating earthquakes influence this work but Kimura often provokes this idea of destruction through more political guises such as the endless “rapid but careless development of so many blockbuster projects based on unchallenged technological progress.” (http://www.abc.net.au/arts/headspace/special/montage/page8.htm)

Mankinds ability to destroy our world through political processes and ideas is very viscerally represented within Kimura’s work. The Photo montage style really helps to convey this by juxtaposing and integrating images we know and understand to tell these new ideas.

Unofficial photography of Appollo,  Tsunehisa Kimura, 1977

Modern Eyes,1976

Cities are the Media, 1970