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Category Archives: Japanese photography
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning fields
Hiroshi Sugimoto is showing prints from his latest series in progress, Lightning Fields, at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Each image is created by applying an electrical charge from a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator directly onto the negative. I find them truly stunning.
Mariko Takeuchi on contemporary Japanese photography
After a lengthy blogging absence, Ferdinand Brueggeman has just posted an interview that he did for FOAM magazine with the curator and photo-historian, Mariko Takeuchi. Essential reading.
Koji Onaka
Koji Onaka and his camera have been wandering around Japan—and sometimes further afield—for many years. In his 2007 book, Dragonfly, he writes: “People often say to me, ‘You’re lucky that all you have to do is to go to places you like whenever you feel like it and when you’re done taking photos as you [...]
Ryuji Miyamoto
Ryuji Miyamoto is best known for his work on architecture, and, more often than not, on its destruction. With his series Pinhole, he had departed somewhat from his previous work by building his own pinhole hut in which he climbs to make his exposures of landscapes. He will be showing new work at Tokyo’s Taro [...]
Interview with Toshio Shibata
The following is an extract from an interview that I did with Toshio Shibata at his studio in Naka-Meguro, Tokyo in May 2008. Shibata recently held his first retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and published Landscape 2 (Nazraeli Press), an excellent collection of his colour photographs. Marc Feustel: You studied painting and [...]
Tomoyuki Sakaguchi
A Hollywood lighting crew get lost in Japanese suburbia and decide to set up on an anonymous street corner or in someone’s back yard? However he gets his orange and purple skies, hyper-green hedges and rabbit-in-the-headlights surburbscapes, Tomoyuki Sakaguchi‘s long exposures of street-lit suburbia have a great sense of missplaced drama.
Nagasaki, 9 August 1945
I posted last week about the bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. A second A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later, on 9 August 1945. This second atomic bombing seems almost more incomprehensible than the first: the idea that horror on this scale could be repeated just three days later. Shomei Tomatsu photographed [...]
Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
Today is the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The magnitude of this event for the Japanese wartime generation is almost unfathomable. For several decades the atomic bombings cast a huge shadow through the work of many Japanese artists. It feels slightly ludicrous to suggest that something good could come from an event [...]
Also posted in Photo-books Tagged Eikoh Hosoe, Hiromi Tsuchida, Hiroshima, Ken Domon, Kikuji Kawada, Miyako Ishiuchi 4 Comments
Review: Naoya Hatakeyama @ Rencontres d’Arles
As I mentioned in my last post, one of my highlights of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles is Naoya Hatakeyama’s exhibition at Arles’ cloître Saint-Trophime. The exhibition includes two series: Scales, a recent commission for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Maquettes / Light, a series of images taken ten years ago but which Hatakeyama has [...]
Review: Voyages @ MCJP