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Jun Fujita: American Visionary Exhibition
Jun Fujita: American Visionary Exhibition
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Title Jun Fujita: American Visionary Exhibition 
Date 2020-03-31/2020-01-24 
Subjects Exhibitions, Photograph collections, Photographs
Description Jun Fujita: American Visionary, presented by the Newberry and the Poetry Foundation, focuses on the extraordinary accomplishments of poet and photojournalist Jun Fujita. This exhibition presents an expanded version of Jun Fujita: Oblivion, first mounted at the Poetry Foundation in 2017, and explores Fujita’s poetry, photojournalism, landscape photography, and uncommon life and love.

Born outside of Hiroshima in 1888, Fujita came to Chicago in 1909, becoming the first Japanese American photojournalist. As an English-language tanka poet, he published regularly in Poetry during the 1920s; as a photographer, he captured many of the most infamous moments in Chicago history, including the Eastland Disaster, the 1919 race riots, and the St. Valentine’s Day massacre.

Throughout his work, Fujita put forward a vision of what “American” can mean, achieving unprecedented success in his profession despite the hostility, prejudice, and persecution he faced as a Japanese native. 
Archival Collection Title Newberry Library Archives
Link to Catalog View record
Call Number NL Archives 
BibID 991051478805867
Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated
Contributing Institution Newberry Library
Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions. 
Size 3024px × 4032px     69.80 MB 
Filename fujita_exhibit_01_30_20_021.tif 
Unique Identifier NL1A73U