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Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Los Angeles
By 1922, Wakaji was an active photographer in the Los Angeles photography community. By 1925 he was an assistant at Toyo Miyatake’s studio in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo. Toyo was the son of the first Japanese confectioner in Los Angeles. Like Wakaji, he yearned to be an artist and did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. After Toyo took a course with local photographer H. K. Shigeta, he bought the Paris P...
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Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Hiroshima
The Matsumoto family returned to Hiroshima in the summer of 1927. Upon their return, Wakaji opened Hiroshima Shashinkan (Hiroshima Photography Studio) in the Naka Ward, near the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall—now known as the Atomic Bomb Dome. The Matsumotos lived above the studio. Wakaji did studio work, commercial photography, and contract photography for the Japanese military and other busines...
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Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Resources
Wakaji Matsumoto—An Artist in Two Worlds: Los Angeles and Hiroshima, 1917–1944 highlights an artist’s rare photographs of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles prior to World War II and urban life in Hiroshima prior to the 1945 atomic bombing of the city. Browse this exhibition’s resources below which include essays by Dennis Reed, the curator of the exhibition, and Karen Matsumoto, Wakaji’s granddaughter...
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Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Event
Join us on Saturday, December 10, 2022, for a virtual program with curator Dennis Reed; project liaison Karen Matsumoto, Wakaji’s granddaughter; and Masami Nishimoto, writer for the Chugoku Shimbun, and others involved with highlighting Matsumoto’s work to delve deeper into his photographs and legacy. Click on the link below for more details and to RSVP. To see a complete listing of the JANM’s programs, check o...
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Wakaji Matsumoto: An Artist in Two Worlds—Press
For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)
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An American Vocabulary: Words to Action—Event
Join us at JANM for the launch of An American Vocabulary: Words to Action on Saturday, October 8, 2022 from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. The event includes live performances from rapper jason chu, percussionist Gingee, and DJ Grace Ktown. Visual artist Audrey Chan will facilitate an interactive art project connected to the flash cards that encourage participants to honor their own community histories. There will also be opportu...
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An American Vocabulary: Words to Action—Artists
Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based artist, illustrator, and educator. Her research-based projects use drawing, painting, public art, and video to challenge dominant historical narratives through allegories of power, place, and identity. She received a MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BA with Honors from Swarthmore College. She was commissioned by LA Metro to create a larg...
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An American Vocabulary: Words to Action—Press
For press inquiries, email mediarelations@janm.org or call 213.625.0414. Press Photo Gallery (Password Access Only—contact mediarelations@janm.org for access.)
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An American Vocabulary: Words to Action—Artwork
An American Vocabulary: Words to Action consists of twenty-one multilingual flash cards that illustrate the four themes of ancestor, voice, persistence, and care through the portrayal of Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) figures, events, actions, and values. A set of discussion questions invites people to consider their own relationships to language, identity, and community. The flash cards sym...