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Tag Archives: Kikuji Kawada
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 [...]
Posted in Asian photography, European photography, One to watch Also tagged Frauke Eigen, Shomei Tomatsu 3 Comments
Some more fuel on the photo-book fire
The debate about the future of photo-books is not exactly new, but it’s not dying down either. I’m not sure where this particular strand of the debate started, but in recent days Jörg posted a few provocative thoughts over at Conscientious, which are feeding into a “crowd-sourced” blog post that has been set up by [...]
Posted in Existentialist photo-ramblings, Photo-books Also tagged Aperture, Benrido, Hatje Cantz, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nazraeli, Photo-books, Toluca Editions 9 Comments
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 [...]
Posted in Japanese photography, Photo-books Also tagged Eikoh Hosoe, Hiromi Tsuchida, Hiroshima, Ken Domon, Miyako Ishiuchi 4 Comments
Japan: A Self-Portrait opening in Tokyo
I have been a bit quiet over the past few days as I have been busy working on two exhibition projects. Last week I went to Sweden to meet with a museum who will be holding the exhibition, Tokyo Stories, which I curated last year and was shown during Paris Photo 2008 at Artcurial. The [...]
Posted in Japanese photography Also tagged Eikoh Hosoe, Exhibition, Hiroshi Hamaya, Ihee Kimura, Ikko Narahara, Japanese photography, Ken Domon, Shigeichi Nagano, Shomei Tomatsu, Tadahiko Hayashi, Takeyoshi Tanuma, Yasuhiro Ishimoto Comments closed
Review: Japanese photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s