Koga, Japanese art photography magazine, published initially by Jurakusha, May 1932, then Koga-sha from January 1933 until its demise in December 1933. Ko-ga means photo-graph in Japanese. Founding photographers included Yasuzo Nojima, Iwata Nakayama, and Ihei Kimura; the photo critic Nobuo Ina joined with the second issue. An important figure in the Japanese New Photography movement, Ina translated Franz Roh's essay ‘Return to Photography’, spreading the influence of the German New Photography movement. Both photographic and written essays (notably by Kanbei Hanaya) were published. Photographic content included Nojima's strong, dynamically posed portraits, and Tokyo images and street shots by Kimura.
— Madeleine Hill Vedel
