For the first time, "The 100 Photos for Press Freedom"´s collection features Japan, with fourteen major Japanese and gaijin photographers. From the most iconic figures to the most contemporary, these are all visions of a country beyond from the clichés of the Rising Sun.
Ken Domon's images of Hiroshima, Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moments" in the archipelago, Daido Moriyama's images of Tokyo as a vibrant capital, and Hitomi Watanabe's images of students in revolt in the 1970s, Françoise Huguier salutes the archipelago of the economic miracle, Ishiuchi Miyako denounces the archipelago steeped in silence and scarred by the American occupation, Masahisa Fukase's mortifying obsession with his wife, and Pierre-Elie de Pibrac's intimate portraits of anonymous people adrift...