Photographic Division of Kokugakai Arts Association. In 1944, the activities of the Photographic Division had been curtailed due to the war effort. By 1945 no exhibition space could be found for the main Kokugakai exhibition due to air raid damage. It was not until 1947 that the Photography Division resumed its annual exhibition. The members of the selection panel were Kitazumi, Ihei Kimura, Iwata Nakayama and Keizō Nagahama. In 1960, Kitazumi established Sōsaku Inga Kai (), an association of artists promoting the process of photograms. In 1969, the association held a group exhibition at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. In his own words, Genzo Kitazumi was "a failed painter who ended up as a deconstructed photographer". Indeed, his yearly submissions to the Arts Association between 1939 and the late seventies could not easily be classified. He rarely published works of straight photography, preferring instead to manipulate the images in the darkroom, and, in his latter years, dispensing with the use of the camera altogether. In the hard outlines of monochromatic images without tonal gradations, it is possible to see a link between his pre-war photographs and post-war photograms. Kitazumi died in Tokyo on 1982. List of known works References External links Japanese photographers 1898 births 1982 deaths Artists from Shizuoka Prefecture