Kansuke Yamamoto

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Kansuke Yamamoto (山本 悍右, 30 March 1914 – 2 April 1987) was a photographer and poet. He was a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan.

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He was born in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. He was the oldest son of Goro Yamamoto (1880–1941), who was the founding member of Aiyu Photography Club. He encountered surrealism and dadaism through the poetry magazine “cine´” published by Yamanaka Chiruu who was promoting surrealism in Japan.

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The oldest of his existing works is called “Aru Ningen no Shisou no Hatten・・・Moya to Shinshitsu(The Developing Thought of a Human…Mist and Bedroom)”, which was published in a magazine in 1932.

In 1939, he formed a group called “Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde”. The group applied surrealism into their photographs and their avant-garde photography gathered national attention by some magazines like “Photo Times” and “Camera Art”.

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From around 1965 to 1975, he coached the younger generation as an adviser of Chubu Photography Federation of Students.

He also donated his body to science via Nagoya University School of Medicine upon his death and no funeral was held, in accordance with his living will.

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