New Visions of Japanese Photography
October 2019
New exhibits and articles celebrate the work of Japanese photographers across the decades.
Ocula Magazine documents the career of influential avant-garde photographer Daido Moriyama, who published photography books on the street life of four international capitals; read the full article here.
An exhibition at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum features iconic photographic works of past eras (including the painted photography of the Yokohama shasin genre) alongside compelling contemporary images, and explores the concept of time as both a subject matter and a practical element of photography. Featured works include portraits by Hiroo Kikai, Hiromi Tsuchida’s “Hiroshima 1945-1979” series, photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto that show exposed negatives on cinema screens, and Tomoko Yoneda’s photographs of texts taken through the spectacle lenses of writers. Click here to learn more.
Photograph by Eriko Masaoka.
Meanwhile, L'Officiel USA celebrates ten contemporary Japanese photographers, including Lieko Shiga, Naohiro Utagawa, Momo Okabe, Eriko Masaoka, Yoshiyuki Okuyama, Monika Mogi, Fumi Ishino, Daisuke Yokota, Fumi Nagasaka and Kenta Cobayashi. Read the full article here.
And the new exhibit "Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography" at the National Gallery of Canada features more than 200 works by 28 significant Japanese photographers, including many photographs on view for the first time outside Japan; among the highlights are the groundbreaking are-bure-boke (grainy, blurry, out of focus) photos of Takuma Nakahira. Learn more about the exhibit here.