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Category Archives: Japanese photography
Art Space Tokyo
Tokyo is not an easy place to get to grips with, especially for those of us who are used to the structure and scale of most European cities. Its multi-layered sprawl and labyrinthine underground transport network can make it feel like a never-ending maze. Like the city itself, Tokyo’s art scene can feel impenetrable to [...]
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Review: Nina Poppe, Ama
If I had to choose a single word to describe Nina Poppe’s book Ama it would be ‘modest.’ It is not a ‘clever’ book, nor a powerful one. It is quiet and does little to promote itself (the book’s open spine design which does not allow for text guarantees that it will be all but [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, European photography, Photo-books 4 Comments
Photobooks 2011: a view from Japan
As 2011 came to an end, I (somewhat foolishly) decided to compile the many ‘best photobooks of 2011′ lists that were popping up all over the internet to see whether there were any books that were consistently getting all the plaudits. The result is the previous post, a meta-list drawn compiling a total of 52 [...]
Also posted in Book reviews, Photo-books Tagged Atsushi Fujiwara, Dan Abbe, Ivan Vartanian, Japan, John Sypal, Ken Iseki, Nao Amino, Peter Evans, Photo-books, Ryosuke Iwamoto, Tomoe Murakami 2 Comments
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!!!
10×10: Japanese Photobooks