• Ken Domon (1909-1990)

Hiroshima survivors’ physical and emotional scars through stark, unstaged black-and-white social realist photography, emphasizing both suffering and resilience thirteen years after the atomic bombing.

• Kikuji Kawada (1933)

Abstract photographic reflection on Japan’s cultural memory, wartime scars, and the search for postwar identity.

• Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024)

Gender relationships, sexuality, and power dynamics through fragmented representations of the body through high-contrast black-and-white compositions.

• Christer Strömholm (1918-2002)

Subjective impressions of post-war life conveyed through images of isolation, physical decay, and abandoned environments, where signs of death and loss shape a visual meditation on impermanence.

• Larry Clark (1943)

Unfiltered depiction of youth subculture in 1960s America, documenting drug use, violence, and intimacy through a deeply personal and immersive photographic approach.

• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.