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an introduction to those photographers youd be embarrassed not to know about
JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY
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Introduction
Im no expert - just a very basic guide
Overview of most well-known Japanese photographers
Certainly not comprehensive
Attempt to show different schools and philosophies
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UEDA AND DOMON
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Shoji Ueda
1913-2000
Opened his own studio at 19, but only gained worldwide attention in the 1970s.
Surrealist, compositional based photographer.
Well known for Tottori sand dune photos.
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Shoji Ueda
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Shoji Ueda
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Ken Domon
Documented aftermath of Word War 2.
Looked at society and lives of ordinary people.
Realist - a snapshot that is absolutely not dramatic.
Rejected posed and artistic photography.
Strokes in 1960 and 1968 - confined to wheelchair, and photographed Buddhist temples.
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Ken Domon
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Ken Domon
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VIVO
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VIVO - overview
Short lived photo agency formed in 1957 by Shomei Tomatsu, Kikuchi Kawada, Eikoh Hosoe and Ikko Narahara.
Seminal junin no me (eyes of ten) exhibition.
Personal views of Japan. Renounced realism.
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VIVO photographers - key publications
Eikoh Hosoe - Kamaitachi.
Shomei Tomatsu and Ken Domon - Hiroshima Nagasaki Document 1961.
Kikuchi Kawada - Chizu.
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Eikoh Hosoe
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Eikoh Hosoe
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Eikoh Hosoe
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Shomei Tomatsu
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Shomei Tomatsu
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Shomei Tomatsu
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PROVOKE
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Provoke - overview
Late 1960s to mid 1970s.
Short lived, low cost photography magazine.
Founders - Kohi Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi and Daido Moriyama.
Klein and Tomatsu influenced many of these photographers.
Aim - to create a new photographic language that could transcend the written word.
Rethinking photographic conventions: are, bure boke - rough, blurred, out of focus.
Push processing, use of Olympus Pen - half-sized negatives.
Conceptualism over realism.
Chance and the unknown to be revealed through the photographic process.
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Provoke photographers - key publications
Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama.
Hotel, Shibuya - Daido Moriyama.
For a language to come - Takuma Nakahira.
Toshi-e - Yutaka Takanashi.
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A few words and a video on Moriyama
Initially influenced by William Klein
But, with Provoke, developed a style that is truly his own
Without Moriyama there may never have been Anders Peterson, Michael Ackerman, Jacob Aue Sobol and even Yusuf Sevincli!
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Video intermission
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Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama
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Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama
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Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama
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For a Language to Come - Nakahira
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For a Language to Come - Nakahira
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Toshi e - Takanashi
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Toshi e - Takanashi
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POST-PROVOKEAraki, Yoshiyuki, Kurata and Naito
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Nobuyoshi Araki
One of Japans most well-known photographers
Influenced by Provokes Moriyama and Nakahira
Because of their visceral engagement with their subject matter, especially the subject of the street and the expressive character of individual lives
My Wife Yoko, A Sentimental Journey
Leading proponent of personal photography that can be seen in young contemporary photographers such as Nagashima and Hiromix
Women queue around the block to be photographed by him - his preference is for the every day woman, the housewife
Bondage photos
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Nobuyoshi Araki
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Nobuyoshi Araki
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Nobuyoshi Araki
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Kohei Yoshiyuki
1979 exhibition - The Park
A soft-core voyeurs manual
35mm infrared film and infrared flash
Pushes boundaries between photographer, spectator, viewer and participant.
Loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big hard metropolis like Tokyo. - Martin Parr
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Kohei Yoshiyuki
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Kohei Yoshiyuki
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Kohei Yoshiyuki
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Seiji Kurata
One of my favourite Japanese photographers
Flash-Up for many years a collectors object - recently re-issued by Zen Gallery
Hard, immersive, fearless Weegee like images - fights, crime scenes, portraits, hostess clubs
Pictures from Tokyos most notorious district in the 1970s - Ikebukuro
Journal style articles accompany the pictures - to provide context and authenticity
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Seiji Kurata
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Seiji Kurata
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Seiji Kurata
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Masatoshi Naito
Very difficult to find information about him
1970s - Ba Ba Bakuhatsu (Grandma Explosion) a collectors item
Interest in Folkloric traditions that can be seen in Lieko Shigas work today
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Masatoshi Naito
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Masatoshi Naito
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Masatoshi Naito
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YURIE NAGASHIMA AND HIROMIX
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Yurie Nagashima
Received urbanart award in 1993 for her Kazoku series of pictures of her and her family in the nude - which some commentators argue is a contemporary take on Fukase Nasahisas project of the same name.
Araki nominated her for award.
Compared to Nan Goldin.
Concerned with family, gender, identity, sexuality and censorship.
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Yurie Nagashima - Kazoku
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Yurie Nagashima - Kazoku
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Yurie Nagashima
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Hiromix
Pioneer for female photographers in Japan.
Won 1995 Canon New Cosmos award as a teenager.
Championed by Araki.
Self portrait heavy, snapshot aesthetic. Colour.
I take photos of what I like. Claims she is influenced by no-one and has no particular theme.
Participant and observer of working class youth culture. Her subjects dont expect anything from the future.
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Girls Blue - Hiromix
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Girls Blue - Hiromix
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Girls Blue - Hiromix
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POST NAGASHIMA AND HIROMIX
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Ume Kayo
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Ume Kayo
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Ume Kayo
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Ume Kayo
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Ume Kayo
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Motoyuki Daifu
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Motoyuki Daifu
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Motoyuki Daifu
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AND SOME OTHER FAVOURITES
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Jun Abe
Rinko Kawauchi
Lieko Shiga
Daisuke Yokota
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Jun Abe
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Jun Abe
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Rinko Kawauchi
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Rinko Kawauchi
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Rinko Kawauchi
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Lieko Shiga
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Lieko Shiga
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Kohei Yoshiyuki
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Daisuke Yokota
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Daisuke Yokota
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GENERAL PRINCIPLES
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Importance of the print and the photo book
Very few share their work online or even have websites
Photographers on the whole are very humble
Very much an in person community
Often a surreal and personal view of the world
Sheltered (deliberately?) from outside influence
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FURTHER READING AND USEFUL RESOURCES
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The photo book as an object.
Dan Abbes blog - Street Level Japan.
Japan Exposures - blog and online Japanese photo book store.
Japan-Photo blog
Fraction Magazine
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