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Syoin Kaji: Nami

Tuesday, November 23, 2004 //
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Just ordered at Amazon Japan
Syoin Kajii: Nami

The book and the photographer seem to be very interesting:

“His works appeal to me like an ethnic music I’ve never heard of.” – a comment by designer Hideki Nakajima. Among 1200 applicants of the 1st FOIL AWARD, Syoin Kajii was selected as a grand prix winner by Yoshitomo Nara. He doesn’t only take photographs of sea wave in Sado island, but also a priest of esoteric Buddhism. He carefully gauge the speed of the wind and level of sea wave, in order to shoot the waves he aims at. The hitch and faith of his works realize spiritual and dynamic photographs. Designed beautifully by Hideki Nakajima, the works are pulled together as a magnificent and refined photobook.

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Daido Moriyama at Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne

Sunday, November 21, 2004 //
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Daido Moriyama: Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, 1970/2004

Daido Moriyama at Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, until Jan. 28, 2005
Daido Moriyama born in 1938 in Osaka is one of the most important Japanese photographers since 1945. His work plays a central role in establishing Japanese photography as one of the most creative directions in the history of photography. During the “Provoke Era” at the end of the 1960s/beginning of the 1970s Moriyama made a significant contribution to the development of photography and his influence on younger Japanese artists continues up until today.

Beside his black and white photographs Galerie Priska Pasquer is glad to be able to exhibit for the first time ever a group of colour photographs by Daido Moriyama.

Daido Moriyama: Yokosuka, 1970/2004

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Japan is a pure invention…

Thursday, November 11, 2004 //
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In fact the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people. One of our most charming painters went recently to the Land of the Chrysanthemum in the foolish hope of seeing the Japanese. All he saw, all he had the chance of painting, were a few lanterns and some fans.

Oscar Wilde: The Decay of Lying, 1905

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