Paradise Beach
Hideo Haga
Japanese, 1921–2022
1935-59
A gelatin silver print photograph in which Hideo Haga composes a sparsely inhabited shoreline—using curved sandbanks and small human figures to observe everyday life and quiet solitude.
What hits you first are the bold, sweeping curves of sand and water that form graphic horizontal bands, while tiny groups and a solitary figure punctuate the wide, contemplative space.
Rooted in Japan’s documentary and modernist photography, the image fuses formal composition with an ethnographic eye, expanding mid‑20th‑century ways of seeing ordinary people and landscape.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
11 1/16 × 14 38" (28.1 × 36.5 cm)
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Department
Credit
Gift of Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Accession
436.1959
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