Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942

Designer Hara Hiromu Japanese

Editor Okada Sozo Japanese

1942

Not on view

Designed by Hara Hiromu and published in Japan from 1942 until 1945, Front was a government-sponsored propaganda magazine inspired directly by the Soviet magazine USSR in Construction (1930–41). It was distributed freely by Japan to the eight nation members of its "Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." The combined mastery of its montage-based graphic illustrations and rich gravure printing produced a tour-de-force of pictorial design. This issue is subtitled Guarding Asia, the Imperial Navy.

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Title: Front, nos. 1–2, August 19, 1942
Designer: Hara Hiromu (Japanese, Iida, Nagano 1903–1986 Tokyo)
Editor: Okada Sozo (Japanese)
Date: 1942
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Mary Ann and Frank B. Arisman, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020
Object Number: JFMPL.Arisman.2020.44
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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