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Their work uses the medium as a substitute for experience rather than documentation. The explicit eroticism in these photographs is an affirmation of Eros (“life/sex”) and memory in an alienated postwar society, and exemplifies a new outlook on the role of the individual in photography. Hosoe, Moriyama, and Araki are undoubtedly some of the most well-known Japanese photographers of the late twentieth century. Japan’s photography scene had no fixed ideology or style during this postwar period, rather the photographers searched for a means of individual expression by exploring the role of the …