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Category Archives: Asian photography
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
Yasutaka Kojima
I met Yasutaka Kojima at Photoquai in Paris last year. I don’t know that much about him apart from the fact that he studied with Masato Seto, a former assistant of Daido Moriyama’s and a terrific photographer in his own right. Kojima is based in New York, where I think he is still completing his [...]
Tokyo highlights
eyecurious has made a slow start to blogging in 2010. However, this was due to a great, albeit far too short trip to Tokyo. I was in Japan preparing two exhibitions that will open in Stockholm, Sweden and in Cologne, Germany in March of this year (more on these in the coming weeks) and laying [...]
Muge, Go Home
The collector turned art dealer, Mark Pearson, opened his gallery Zen Foto in Tokyo earlier this year. The gallery’s focus is on contemporary Chinese photography and the next exhibition will be a solo show of a young photographer originally from Chongqing who is now living in Chengdu. I am aware that this is a gross [...]
Paris Photo: crossing the finish line
Paris Photo 2009 has just drawn to a close and already the reports are flowing in thick and fast. There is much less of a consensus than for NYPH, which was generally perceived to have been a bit disappointing (see my previous round-up post on this). I am just happy to have survived it all [...]
Also posted in Art Fairs / Festivals, Collecting, Events Tagged Maurizio Anzeri, Paris Photo 2 Comments
Yamashita Tsuneo
Yamashita Tsuneo’s website has some great work that shows just how far you can go with simplicity.
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No such thing as a free house?
With his Zero Yen House series Kyohei Sakaguchi has been studying the ‘vernacular architecture’ of self-built homeless shelters in Japan’s three largest cities (Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya) for almost 10 years. He uses photographs, descriptions, architectural drawings and video to explore these structures from the perspective of architecture and sustainable development.
Sakaguchi has made some fascinating [...]
Akira Rachi and Hirofumi Katayama
It seems to be Taro Nasu Gallery week on eyecurious this week. Following on from the seemingly excellent Ryuji Miyamoto show, they are now going to be showing work by Akira Rachi and Hirofumi Katayama. This show could be called ‘In Between’ as both of these two young photographers focus on interstitial spaces. Katayama seeks [...]
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