Stylized painting showing a photographer operating a large wooden bellows camera, set against a backdrop of draped reddish-brown fabric and abstract gray forms.
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 60

"Race, Nationalism, and Artistic Agency in Self-Portrait as a Photographer by Yasuo Kuniyoshi"

Nicholas, Sasha
2025
16 pages
10 illustrations
9.25 x 11.25 in
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 60 include texts on a ceramic figure of a Tolita-Tumaco community elder crafted in ancient Ecuador, an exemplary Hanukkah lamp made by an eighteenth-century Roman silversmith, and modernist painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portrait as a Photographer from 1924.

Self-Portrait as a Photographer, Yasuo Kuniyoshi  American, born Japan, Oil on canvas
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
1924

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Nicholas, Sasha. “Race, Nationalism, and Artistic Agency in Self-Portrait as a Photographer by Yasuo Kuniyoshi.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 60 (December 2025): 86–101. https://doi.org/10.1086/739636.