THE FLOATING WORLD OF NEW YORK

THE FLOATING WORLD OF NEW YORK Japanese Art, Community, and Politics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century What Did “Japanese Art” Mean in New York? Making Modern Art in an Immigrant City Who Counted as an American Artist? Art, Work, and Politics War, Incarceration, and Beginning Again RESEARCH, SOURCES, AND CREDITS Unknown artist, […]

Issei

ISSEI Portraits Of The First-Generation Japanese New Yorkers Created in 1980 by Japanese photographer Hiroyuki “Tora” Inoue, these portraits capture New York’s Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants whose lives helped shape the city’s Japanese community but often remained unseen. Nearly forty-five years later, most of this remarkable body of work is now brought […]