© Kenji Ishiguro
On view
Photography
Zengakuren Students II,
1960
Kenji Ishiguro 石黒 健治, born 1935, Fukui prefecture, Japan
1996-108
The Zengakuren—short for Zen Nihon Gakusei Jichikai Sōrengō (the All-Japan League of Student Self-Government Associations)—was founded in 1948, in the wake of World War II, when left-wing Japanese student factions protested the restrictive policies of the Japanese Communist Party. Ishiguro captures the violence that erupted during these postwar demonstrations. In 1960 the anarchic activities of Zengakuren organizations led to the cancellation of US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s visit to Japan and the resignation of the Japanese prime minister. Today the Zengakuren continue to pursue social change in Japan.
Information
Title
Zengakuren Students II
Dates
1960
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
16.9 × 24.6 cm (6 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)
mount: 35.2 × 26.9 cm (13 7/8 × 10 9/16 in.)
mat: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 × 14 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Patricia and Franklin S. Kolodny, by exchange
Object Number
1996-108
Place Made
Asia, Japan
Inscription
Typed label affixed to mount recto below center of image: Zengakuren students II, 1960.
Print stamped in blue ink in Japanese verso lower left; signed and dated in ink within stamp.
Culture
Techniques
The artist. [Howard Greenberg Gallery, after 1959]; by exchange, Patricia and Franklin S. Kolodny; given to the Princeton University Art Museum, by exchange, 1996.
