About Kōrō Honjō
Lived 1907 – 1995 (aged 87–88). Kōrō Honjō was a Japanese photographer.
was a renowned Japanese photographer.
By 1933, Honjō was active in the Naniwa Photography Club, where museum accounts list him among the members associated with the club's shift from New Photography toward Surrealist and abstract avant-garde work in Osaka.
In 1937, he co-founded the Avant-Garde Image Group with Yoshifumi Hattori, Gingo Hanawa, Tarui Yoshio, and Terushichi Hirai, a circle dedicated to experimental photographic expression. The Osaka section of the 2022 Tokyo Photographic Art Museum exhibition Avant-Garde Rising: The Photographic Vanguard in Modern Japan later discussed the group as part of the Kansai avant-garde.
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Japanese photographer (1907-1995)
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Kōrō Honjō was born in 1907 in Osaka.
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Kōrō Honjō died in 1995.
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Kōrō Honjō was a photographer.
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Kōrō Honjō was Japanese.
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