Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 72
  • 72

Hiromu Kira 1898-1991

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Hiromu Kira
  • 'THE SHADE AND SHADOW'
mounted, signed and titled by the photographer in pencil on the mount, numbered '2' in an unidentified hand in pencil and with 5 exhibition labels from venues in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, and a typed label with further exhibition information, on the reverse, matted, 1924

Provenance

Private Collection, Los Angeles

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above

Exhibited

Fort Wayne, First Annual Salon of Photography, May 1924
London, Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain Salon, 1925
Toronto Salon, 1925
First International Syracuse Salon, June 1926
Preston Scientific Society, 1929

Twelve additional exhibition venues are listed on the typed label attached to the verso of this print and can be provided upon request.

Literature

Another print of this image:

Dennis Reed, Japanese Photography in America, 1920-1940 (Los Angeles: Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, 1986, in conjunction with the exhibition at its George J. Doizaki Gallery), pl. 56

Catalogue Note

The Shade and Shadow is one of Kira's most notable early works.  Dr. Kyo Koike, founder of the Seattle Camera Club in 1924, included the image in the December 1925 issue of Notan, the club's bimonthly publication.  The issue's caption lists six international salons in which the photograph had been exhibited. Later that year, The Shade and Shadow was one of four images by Kira published in the 1925 American Annual of Photography.