Visual Counterculture in Japan

"This book analyses emergent visual trends in Japan from the late 1960s to the present. Adopting a case study approach, it deconstructs the role that visual practices can play in shaping a variety of countercultural discourses related to politics, gender, identity, censorship, ethics and disasters. In demonstrating how photography, reportage, photojournalism and film can drive countercultural shifts in society, this book shows how visual art forms which transgress or subvert socio-cultural boundaries in Japan also have a wider impact due to the interconnectedness between these practices from a global perspective"--