Ravens & Red Lipstick

Lena Fritsch is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century Japanese art and photography, and an experienced translator of the Japanese language. As Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), she works on exhibitions and displays of international art. Before joining the Ashmolean, she was Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where she worked on acquisitions and displays of art from the Asia-Pacific region. Her publications include Yasumasa Morimura’s ‘Self-Portrait as Actress’ (2008), The Body as a Screen: Japanese Art Photography of the 1990s (2011), an English-language edition of Moriyama Daido’s Tales of Tono (2012) and Tokyo: Art & Photography (2021). She holds a PhD in Art History from Bonn University, Germany and also studied at Keio University, Tokyo. Fritsch lectures in Japanese photography at the University of Oxford, V&A and SOAS.

• Introduction 1. Post-War Trauma and Realism 2. The Image Generation and Vivo: A New Hunger for Creation and Expression3. New Freedom: Provoke and the 1970s 4. Girl Power Photography 5. Contemporary Japanese Photography Chronology

'Lena Fritsch's vivid commentary and nuanced scholarship contextualise the influential characters, important works and entangled political movements of a fascinating history' - Aesthetica