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Oct 31, 2023 · Footnote 57 In Taki’s view, adopted by many historians since, despite the fervour with which people made and consumed photographs in Japan until the wartime period, Japanese photographers and the picture press had not adequately learned to use documentary photography to the extent of its full critical capacity. In this logic, the weak ...
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Image credit: Rinko Kawauchi Rinko Kawauchiis known for her stylistic dream-like photos and use of soft colours and simple compositions. Image credit: @rinkokawauchi Born in 1972, she was inspired to be a photographer while studying graphic design at the Seian University of Art and Design. Image credit: Rinko Kawauchi Some of her more famous works ...
Image credit: Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Daido Moriyama was born on October 10, 1938, in Osaka, before he moved to Tokyo in 1961. Later, he began his career as a freelance photographer in 1964, often shooting around American bases in Yokosuka. Image credit: Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation Many of Daido’s photo books are considered a must-read ...
Shunji Dodo took this photo on one of his trips to BangkokImage credit: @shashasha_book Shunji Dodowas born in 1947 in Osaka. After graduating from the Kyushu Sangyo University Faculty of Arts Department of Photography, he became a professor at the Tokyo Shashin Senmon Gakko in the same year. He then went on to become a professor at the Osaka Shash...
Image credit: Michael Hoppen Gallery Masahisa Fukase(1934-2012) was born in Hokkaido. His family ran a photo studio in a small town. Although he had moved to Tokyo permanently in the 1950s to further his studies and career, he still felt a strong emotional bond with his hometown. Image credit: Michael Hoppen Gallery Fukase’s 1986 book Karasu, also ...
Image adapted from: @harpersbooks Tamiko Nishimura was born in 1948 in Tokyo. Image credit:@zen_foto_gallery After graduating from Tokyo Visual Arts, then called Tokyo Photography College, Nishimura worked as a darkroom assistant for 3 Provoke Movement photographers– Daido Moriyama, Kōji Taki and Takuma Nakahira. As a young and impressionable photo...
Image credit: @francis_gan Hiroshi Hamaya(1915-1999) was the first Japanese photographer to join Magnum Photos, a renowned international photographic cooperative, as an associate member in 1960. In 1995, his work was featured in a world-touring exhibition by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), which saw more than 9 million visitors. Boys singing to dr...
Image credit: Takehito Miyatake Born in Osaka in 1966, Takehito Miyatakeis a prolific nature photographer. His work is easily recognisable by mysterious and mystical lights that makes one wonder if it was a photo taken in real life. Image credit: Takehito Miyatake His most notable works are that of fireflies, volcanic eruptions, and the Japanese la...
Image credit: Priska Pasquer Shomei Tomatsu was born in Nagoya in 1930 and died in Okinawa in December 2012. Tomatsu was an eminent post-WWII photographer who kick-started a style of raw and gritty photography that was a 180° change from its restrained predecessor. It’s said that his style influenced other notable Japanese photographers, such as Da...
We hope we left you feeling inspired by these Japanese photographers. While they were all exceedingly talented and skilled, we believe that it was their lived experiences that fuelled their passion to photograph and document, hence creating a beautiful body of work with stories to tell. We’d also like to thank the various galleries and photo founda...
Oct 1, 2019 · 10. Kineo Kuwabara – Ueno Station, Tokyo, 1936. Considered the “portraitist” of Tokyo, Kineo Kuwabara’s quiet and beautiful photos paint the metropolis in an almost serene light. Made famous by long-time friend and super-fan, Araki, Kuwabara first exhibited his work in the exhibition “Love you Tokyo” in 1993.
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Eikoh Hosoe. Eikoh Hosoe during FotoArtFestival 2005, Bielsko-Biala, Poland. Credit: Piotr Bieniecki / www.fototeo.pl / license: CC BY-SA 4.0. Eikoh Hosoe is a prominent Japanese photographer and film director. Born in 1933 in Yamagata, Hosoe has been a key figure in the development of Japanese post-war photography.
Apr 23, 2014 · Here are 10 photos that exemplify the spirit of Japan's grand masters, from large-scale works recording a spectacular limestone quarry explosion to blurry snapshots documenting the seedy underbelly of Tokyo 's Shinjuku neighborhood. GEN AIHARA. Born: 1972, Hyogo.
Feb 8, 2012 · Collezione Vittorio. Discreet tinting of photographic images was already practiced in the West, and Beato had experimented with it in Istanbul. But with the aid of Wirgman’s close contacts with...
About. A virtual collection of more than 40 souvenir photograph albums and illustrated publications from Japan with over 2,000 images from Widener Library, the Fine Arts Library, and Harvard-Yenching Library. These images primarily document the early history of commercial photography in Japan and are representative of what is often called ...