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Basic Principles
Three Collecting and Exhibiting Principles of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts /Eikoh Hosoe, Director
1. The Affirmation of Life

2. Eternal Platinum Prints

3. Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio

1. The Affirmation of Life
The Museum embraces photographic art made in the affirmation of life. Work from all countries from 1900 to the present it represented.

2. Eternal Platinum Prints
The Museum collects classic and contemporary platinum prints from Japan and overseas. The exquisite tonal gradation and the permanence of this medium make the platinum process a high point in photographic expression. The Museum is proud to represent this medium dating from its beginnings in the 19th century to the present.

Permanent Collection
Jerry N. Uelsmann

Untitled
1983

Platinum print
Karl Struss

Storm Clouds, La Mesa, California
1921

Platinum print

Clarence H. White

Maiden with Bowl
1907

Platinum print

Leonard Freed

Harlem
1967

Gelatin silver print

William Klein

Tokyo
1964

Gelatin silver print

ARAKI Nobuyoshi

Sacchin
1962-63

Platinum print

3. Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio
We believe that there is no clearer signal or a more direct means of support for the young photographer than the purchase of their work for a permanent museum collection. This is why the Museum acquires work by those who promise to be our future photographic visionaries.

*Young Portfolio

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