Jindrich Toman

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Jindrich Toman is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Among his research interests is the history of interwar modernism in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the author of a monograph on photography and photomontage in interwar print media (Photomontage in Print, 2009).

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Response: More on Gas Masks

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In her article on Japan’s interwar visual culture, Gennifer Weisenfeld has documented and critically discussed a wealth of interwar images, many of them photographic, that involve gas masks. [1] Among them stands out Masao Horino’s 1936 Gas Mask Parade, a photograph showing a formation of girls marching in school uniforms, with gas masks on their faces. While her material offers a fascinating angle on a local visual culture, Weisenfeld reminds us in a footnote that gas-mask imagery was actually...

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