Comments on: Hiroo Kikai “Persona” http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/ A blog about Japanese photography, seen from abroad :-) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:48:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: El nuevo libro de Hiroh Kikai. - Monte Carlo FM (www.montecarlo.fm) : Monte Carlo FM http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-7293 El nuevo libro de Hiroh Kikai. - Monte Carlo FM (www.montecarlo.fm) : Monte Carlo FM Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:26:50 +0000 http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-7293 [...] Ya esta disponible el  libro “Asakusa Portraits” con algunas de las mejores fotos del fotógrafo japonés Hiroh Kikai.  [...] [...] Ya esta disponible el  libro “Asakusa Portraits” con algunas de las mejores fotos del fotógrafo japonés Hiroh Kikai.  [...]

]]> By: Skorj http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-7012 Skorj Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:20:13 +0000 http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-7012 The smaller reprint version of `Persona` was my first exposure to Kikai. The print quality is as good as I would expect from any book, at any price. The work of course is brilliant - all 191 plates. Thoroughly recommended, and still available. I do not know Kikai, but I know Kurt. Does that count? Skorj. The smaller reprint version of `Persona` was my first exposure to Kikai. The print quality is as good as I would expect from any book, at any price. The work of course is brilliant - all 191 plates. Thoroughly recommended, and still available.

I do not know Kikai, but I know Kurt. Does that count? Skorj.

]]> By: Ferdinand http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-19 Ferdinand Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:43:02 +0000 http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-19 Hi Kurt, You should look for the original version of "Persona". The print quality is superb, but of course the book wasn't cheap -around 10.000 Yen if I remember right and today it costs almost probably more at stores like "M". Please let me know when you have published your thoughts on Kikai. I am looking forward to read it. Thanks for the reminder on the Wikipedia entry about Kikai. It's well done. Hopefully there will be more on Japanese photographers at Wikipedia in the future. I am curious who the author of the text is? If you don't want to reveal his name here I would be glad if you could send me an email. And yes, "Persona" contains an essay by the filmmaker Wajda. Kikai had an exhibiton in Poland and maybe he met Wajda at that time. Ferdinand Hi Kurt,
You should look for the original version of “Persona”. The print quality is superb, but of course the book wasn’t cheap -around 10.000 Yen if I remember right and today it costs almost probably more at stores like “M”.

Please let me know when you have published your thoughts on Kikai. I am looking forward to read it.

Thanks for the reminder on the Wikipedia entry about Kikai. It’s well done. Hopefully there will be more on Japanese photographers at Wikipedia in the future. I am curious who the author of the text is? If you don’t want to reveal his name here I would be glad if you could send me an email.

And yes, “Persona” contains an essay by the filmmaker Wajda. Kikai had an exhibiton in Poland and maybe he met Wajda at that time.

Ferdinand

]]> By: Kurt http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-18 Kurt Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:14:20 +0000 http://japan-photo.info/blog/2006/06/25/hiroo-kikai-persona/#comment-18 to answer your question, yes I know him, though not personally :) I saw an exhibit of these photos a few months ago at the Nikon gallery in Ginza, just a portion of them. I subsequently bought the republished version of the book (the cover of which you show above), although for some reason it doesn't have my favorite photo, of the old woman in kimono with a Pentax around her neck. I also have his entry in that "in-between" series of books that came out last year (photos shot in Malta), although frankly it was rather disappointing compared to the Asakusa stuff. I have an essay I've written in my head about Kikai, if only I can find the time to put it to blog, so to speak. A local photo enthusiast I know has done some work trying to get Kikai better known outside of Japan, and is responsible for this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikai_Hiroo btw, is that the great Polish filmmaker Wajda that you've quoted above? to answer your question, yes I know him, though not personally :) I saw an exhibit of these photos a few months ago at the Nikon gallery in Ginza, just a portion of them. I subsequently bought the republished version of the book (the cover of which you show above), although for some reason it doesn’t have my favorite photo, of the old woman in kimono with a Pentax around her neck. I also have his entry in that “in-between” series of books that came out last year (photos shot in Malta), although frankly it was rather disappointing compared to the Asakusa stuff.

I have an essay I’ve written in my head about Kikai, if only I can find the time to put it to blog, so to speak.

A local photo enthusiast I know has done some work trying to get Kikai better known outside of Japan, and is responsible for this Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikai_Hiroo

btw, is that the great Polish filmmaker Wajda that you’ve quoted above?

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