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Protest Surrounding the Construction of Narita Airport, c. 1969
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Unknown Artist |
| Spatial Coverage | Japan |
| Temporal Coverage | 1962-1978 |
| Description | Protests saturated postwar Japan's political landscape. In 1960 public demonstrations were sparked by the ratification of a lopsided security treaty between Japan and the United States, which was escalating involvement in Vietnam. Large-scale protests were also mounted against the construction of Narita Airport, led by leftists who opposed the airport out of antimilitarist, anti-American sentiments, as well as farmers whose land would be seized in order to make room for the massive facility. While the airport was completed in 1972, it only opened in 1978 after the government finally quelled the dogged resisters. This picture is one of a group of 500 made anonymously by one or more protesters against the airport, and purchased by the Art Institute in 2010. [A work made of gelatin silver print.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. |
| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Photographic Paper Black and White Photography Photographic Process Photographic Techniques Photography Artworks |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
| Object Type | Photographs |
