Portraits, still-lifes and photomontages | Iwao Yamawaki (1930-1933)

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Portraits, still-lifes and photomontages | Iwao Yamawaki (1930-1933)Iwao2BYamawaki2B 2BUntitled2C2B1931
 Iwao Yamawaki, Lunch (12-2pm), 1931                 Iwao Yamawaki, Bauhaus Building, Southern View, Dessau, 1930-32
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Iwao Yamawaki, Porches and clock, 1930
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Iwao Yamawaki, Cafeteria after lunch, Bauhaus, Dessau (1932)

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 Iwao Yamawaki, Hands playing the piano, 1932
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Iwao Yamawaki, Hand With Ring, 1930
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Iwao Yamawaki, Portrait of a Man Smoking. 1931         Iwao Yamawaki, Portrait of woman, 1930-32

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Iwao Yamawaki, Tea-glass by Josef Albers, 1933
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Iwao Yamawaki, Articulated mannequin and shadow, 1931       Iwao Yamawaki, Articulated Mannequin, 1931
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Iwao Yamawaki, Four walkers from above, 1930-32 
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 Iwao Yamawaki, Two heads, 1930-32
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Iwao Yamawaki, Attack on the Bauhaus, 1932   
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Iwao Yamawaki, Typewriter, 1930
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Iwao Yamawaki, Self-portrait, 1930 – 32 

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Iwao Yamawaki, Bather collage, 1933

Iwao Yamawaki is an interesting figure at the intersection of modernism and the history of Japanese photography. He began his career as an architect but became dissatisfied with Japanese practices. For that reason he travelled to Germany in 1930, where he enrolled as a student of the Bauhaus in Dessau. He started studying architecture at the Bauhaus, but soon moved on to the photography section where he produced architecture photography, portraits, still-lifes and photomontages. The photographic methods of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Walter Peterhans had a big influence on him. Yamawaki continuously analysed the relationship between photography and the design of spaces, and he often tried to interpret the connection between human beings and architectural space in his pictures.
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