From the Scene of Creation ―Artists’ Archives in Films and Photographs

In 1953, a year after the Bridgestone Museum of Art opened, it established its Film Committee. By 1964, eleven years later, the committee had completed seventeen films documenting artists at work in their ateliers and their daily lives. In addition, the museum has recently collected documentary photographs of artists by Anzai Shigeo (1939-2020). Anzai was a photographer who continued to chronicle the contemporary art scene from the end of World War II on. Producing these films documenting artists and acquiring Anzai’s work are actions that can be seen as presenting the consistent approach of the Ishibashi Foundations towards archives of the arts. This exhibition presents Japanese contemporary art where it happens through the valuable art videos our Film Committee has produced, works by the artists in those films, and Anzai’s photographs.

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*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.