Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 10th anniv. show

For those jet setters in the audience, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of retrospectives collectively entitled "How Photography Changed People's Viewpoint." I'm sure it sounds more elegant in Japanese. The four shows, running back-to-back, each focus on a different stage in the development of photography, not only as an art form but also as a societal issue. The current show covers the period 1880-1940, a time of both significant technilogical advances of impassioned artistic innovation. As one would expect, there is a large showing of Japanese photography from this period presented alongside examples from Western masters. Check out the review in Daily Yomiuri for more info.

The third and fourth shows, "Reconstruction" and "Chaos", run from July 23 to Sept. 11 and Sept. 17 to Nov. 6 respectively. You'll have to know Japanese for more details, though. (Unfortunately I do not, and Google's Japanese translation definitely is still in beta.)