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Originally published from the 1960s onwards, and newly translated into English, writings by critics including Toshiaki Minemura and Yusuke Nakahara examine how photography has been discussed in Japan in relation to painting, sculpture, printmaking, and other art forms. Rather than presenting these historical writings as fixed records of past debates, this volume reconsiders them in relation to contemporary practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree essays by Nancy Foote, Andrei Monastyrski and Robert Smithson, selected by Duncan Wooldridge, widen the frame, carrying these Japanese debates into broader transnational dialogue. 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