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Category Archives: Asian photography
Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory @ AGNSW
I’ve just come back from a ridiculously short trip to Australia for the opening of Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This is Hosoe’s first solo show in Australia and his first trip there. In addition to having the master himself present, he came accompanied by Yoshito Ohno, [...]
Also posted in Events, eyecurious News, Japanese photography Tagged Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, butoh, Eikoh Hosoe, Kazuo Ohno, Sydney, Yoshito Ohno Leave a comment
A Japanese season starts in Paris
Last night was the opening of Japanese Photobooks Now, the first in a summer series of events on Japanese photography and film at Le Bal, which, as regular readers will know, should be right up my street. I’ve written about Le Bal before on eyecurious and since their first show Anonymes last autumn they have [...]
Also posted in Exhibition reviews, Japanese photography, Photo-books Tagged Ivan Vartanian, Japan, Japanese photography 2 Comments
Paris November photo madness round-up
As the eyecurious faithful (and anyone who has been in Paris recently) will have noted, this has been a particularly action-packed month for photography in Paris. As I noted in a previous post, there was a bunch of different events going on at once and, as November draws to a close, I thought I would [...]
Also posted in American photography, Art Fairs / Festivals, Collecting, European photography, Events, Photo-books Tagged André Kertész, art fairs, artbeat publishers, Blake Andrews, Brassaï, Christer Strömholm, collecting, G/P Gallery, Jessica Backhaus, Mao Ishikawa, Massimo Vitali, Maurizio Anzeri, Michael Wolf, Naoya Hatakeyama, Off Print, Paris Photo, Peter Bialobrzeski, Photo-blog, Robert Morat, Serge Plantureux 1 Comment
Book of the Week #3: Ikko Narahara, The Sky in My Hands
Ikko Narahara is a contemporary of Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe and Kikuji Kawada (with he who formed the short-lived but influential VIVO agency in Tokyo in 1960). He is probably the least well-known of the four in the West, although his book Europe: Where Time Has Stopped has become highly collectible. This is an exhibition [...]
Also posted in Book of the Week, Japanese photography, Photo-books Tagged Eikoh Hosoe, Exhibition catalogue, Ikko Narahara, Kikuji Kawada, retrospective, Shomei Tomatsu, VIVO 1 Comment
The photographic tinkerers
E and I recently won tickets to a concert by a Congolese band that I had never heard of, Staff Benda Bilili (‘benda bilili’ means beyond appearances). Apart from the incredible energy that these guys managed to generate despite 80% of the band being paraplegic and all of them living (or having lived) in the [...]
Also posted in European photography, Japanese photography, Tangents Tagged camera, equipment, Miroslav Tichy, Ryuji Miyamoto, self-made 6 Comments
Interview: Eikoh Hosoe’s Butterfly Dream
The exhibition, Eikoh Hosoe: Theatre of Memory has just closed at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne. I did an interview with Hosoe during the opening weekend and a video extract has been posted on photographie.com. Update: Just a few minutes after posting this, I found out that Kazuo Ohno has just passed away at [...]
Plastic, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Megumi Tomomitsu is fond of the plastic bag. She has even compiled a pretty exhaustive list of reasons why. For someone (and somehow I think I am not alone here) who stores hundreds of the things for absolutely no discernable reason, this interests me. Thinking about it, I probably own more plastic bags than photobooks, [...]
Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s
Ivan Vartanian and Ryuichi Kaneko’s Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s belongs to a new breed of photobook: the book on books. Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s two-volume history of the photobook is probably the best known of these, but there are other interesting examples. Jeff Ladd‘s Errata Editions is taking this one step [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, Collecting, Japanese photography, Photo-books Tagged Errata Editions, Gerry Badger, Ivan Vartanian, Jeff Ladd, Kikuji Kawada, Martin Parr, Ryuichi Kaneko 1 Comment
Frauke Eigen, Shoku
Frauke Eigen is currently showing her series Shoku at London’s Atlas Gallery. The series is “inspired by recent visits to Japan” and this comes through in both the subject matter and the approach. These black-and-white images are taken right up close to their subject bringing texture and form to the fore. These are arguably distinguishing [...]
Also posted in European photography, One to watch Tagged Frauke Eigen, Kikuji Kawada, Shomei Tomatsu 3 Comments
Review: Tokyo-e @ Le Bal