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Category Archives: Japanese photography
Naoya Hatakeyama: a book and an exhibition
My most recent trip to Japan in October happily coincided with Naoya Hatakeyama’s first retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of his work – and there is quite a lot of it – so I was curious to see how this exhibition, entitled [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, Exhibition reviews, Magazines, Photo-books Tagged city, Landscape, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tokyo Leave a comment
Review: Tokyo-e @ Le Bal
Le Bal‘s Japanese summer season continues this week with the opening of the exhibition Tokyo-e, which brings together work by Yutaka Takanashi and Keizo Kitajima with a series by an almost complete unknown photographer, Yukichi Watabe, a photojournalist who worked in Tokyo. The three groups of work on show are very different, related only through [...]
Also posted in Asian photography, Events, Exhibition reviews, Photo-books Tagged Araki, Camp, Keizo Kitajima, Moriyama, Provoke, Tokyo, Yukichi Watabe, Yutaka Takanashi 4 Comments
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 Asian photography, Events, eyecurious News 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 Asian photography, Exhibition reviews, Photo-books Tagged Ivan Vartanian, Japan, Japanese photography 2 Comments
Okinawa soul
Since the earthquake of 11 March, Japan has slowly faded out of the international news, barring the occasional update on the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. However things remain critical in the northeast of the country and disrupted as far south as Tokyo as a result of the lingering problems at Fukushima and [...]
Also posted in Photo-books Tagged Mao Ishikawa, military, Okinawa, Shomei Tomatsu, US, Yasuo Higa 4 Comments
Happy Chinese New Year
It’s Chinese New Year today and this will be the year of the rabbit. I can’t think of a better photograph to usher in this new year than this gem by Hiroh Kikai. 新年快乐!!!
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 Asian photography, Book of the Week, Photo-books Tagged Eikoh Hosoe, Exhibition catalogue, Ikko Narahara, Kikuji Kawada, retrospective, Shomei Tomatsu, VIVO 1 Comment
Takashi Homma: Adrift in the city of superflat
Self-promo alert: I’ve just written an essay on Takashi Homma’s series, Tokyo and my Daughter, for edition 23 of FOAM Magazine on City Life. Of course this brilliant piece of writing is reason enough to buy yourself a copy, but there happens to be some other really good stuff in there too, so now you [...]
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 Asian photography, European photography, Tangents Tagged camera, equipment, Miroslav Tichy, Ryuji Miyamoto, self-made 6 Comments
Photobooks 2011: a view from Japan