Tag Archives: Japan

Photobooks 2011: a view from Japan

By eyecurious | Published: 9 January 2012
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 [...]
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A Japanese season starts in Paris

By eyecurious | Published: 27 April 2011
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 [...]
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Photographic help for Japan

By eyecurious | Published: 14 March 2011
Since the quake and tsunami hit Japan on Friday 11 March, a number of photo initiatives have sprung up to support the relief efforts that are being made after this terrible disaster. Here is a list of the ones that I have come across so far. If there are any other initiatives out there, please [...]
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Review: Leo Rubinfien, A Map of the East

By eyecurious | Published: 16 April 2010
I should say this up front: this is not so much a review as a eulogy. It has been a long time since a photobook has had such an strong impact on me (to the point where I found myself poring over it at 3am during a bout of insomnia). I am not going to [...]
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