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Tag Archives: Mao Ishikawa
Notes on 2010
As the year draws to an end and more top-10 lists (and non-lists) than you can wave a stick at make their annual appearance, I thought I would take a broader look back at the past year in photography. This time last year I focused on the chronic over-use of the word curating, a trend [...]
Posted in American photography, Awards, Contemporary art, European photography, Events, Existentialist photo-ramblings, Magazines, Photo-books Also tagged Alec Soth, Arles, Doug Rickard, Erik van der Weijde, Errata Editions, Facebook, Foam magazine, Fotofest, Google, Google Street View, Harvey Benge, independent, John Gossage, Jon Rafman, Larry Clark, LE BAL, Leo Rubinfien, Little Brown Mushroom, Michael Wolf, Only Photography, publishing, retrospective, self-publishing, street photography, Takuma Nakahira, White Press, Yutaka Takanashi 2 Comments
Paris November photo madness round-up
As the eyecurious faithful (and anyone who has been in Paris recently) will have noted, this has been a particularly action-packed month for photography in Paris. As I noted in a previous post, there was a bunch of different events going on at once and, as November draws to a close, I thought I would [...]
Posted in American photography, Art Fairs / Festivals, Asian photography, Collecting, European photography, Events, Photo-books Also tagged André Kertész, art fairs, artbeat publishers, Blake Andrews, Brassaï, Christer Strömholm, collecting, G/P Gallery, Jessica Backhaus, Massimo Vitali, Maurizio Anzeri, Michael Wolf, Naoya Hatakeyama, Off Print, Paris Photo, Peter Bialobrzeski, Photo-blog, Robert Morat, Serge Plantureux 1 Comment
Review: Mao Ishikawa, Life in Philly
There is a famous saying in Japan, “The nail that sticks out is hammered down.” If there is any truth to that over-used trope, Mao Ishikawa cannot have had an easy life. Born in 1953 in Okinawa, she was one of the very few female photographers of her generation who attempted to make a career [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Japanese photography, Photo-books Also tagged Daido Moriyama, Okinawa, Philadelphia, sex, Shomei Tomatsu, street photography 1 Comment
Mao Ishikawa
At the Arles photo festival over the summer, I was introduced to Mao Ishikawa’s work by Mark Pearson. Mao Ishikawa grew up on the islands of Okinawa, which meant a childhood where the US military was a major and unavoidable presence. Speaking about her relationship with the American military, she has said, “I have two hearts [...]
Okinawa soul