New Delhi [India], September 3 (ANI): The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in New Delhi will showcase almost 100 years of Tokyo’s historical past via pictures because the exhibition ‘Tokyo Before/After’ opened on the gallery on Thursday.
The exhibition, titled ‘Tokyo Before/After’, brings collectively round 80 pictures from two totally different durations of the Japanese capital’s historical past. Organised in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, the exhibition started on September 3.Â
The pictures take guests from Tokyo of the Nineteen Thirties and Forties to town captured by photographers from the 2010s onwards. The assortment reveals modifications within the metropolis’s streets, buildings and other people, whereas additionally components of on a regular basis life and cultural reminiscence which have remained over time.
Works by well-known Japanese photographers, together with Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki, are a part of the exhibition.
Sanjeev Kishor Goutam, Director General of NGMA, spoke about the best way the exhibition connects Tokyo’s previous with its current. He stated, “A city is never only what we see before us. It is also what it remembers. Tokyo Before/After allows us to encounter the dynamic city of Tokyo through two distinct moments in time and to discover through photography the subtle continuities between memory, transformation and human experience.”
The exhibition additionally brings collectively pictures taken earlier than and after main modifications in Tokyo, permitting guests to see how totally different generations seen the identical metropolis at totally different cut-off dates.
Koji Sato, Director General of The Japan Foundation, New Delhi, spoke about how pictures can document the modifications a metropolis goes via. He stated, “Photography offers a unique way of understanding a city. Beyond recording streets, buildings, or people, it preserves moments of transformation and reveals how different generations have perceived the same place over time,”
The exhibition was first produced for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Its New Delhi version additionally marks the primary Japan Foundation Travelling Exhibition to be held at NGMA.
The opening ceremony for the exhibition was held at NGMA on September 2. Jinichi Kadowaki, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Japan in India, and Vivek Aggarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, had been amongst these current.
 The exhibition, which started on September 3, will conclude on September 19. (ANI)