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Rinko Kawauchi: “Utatane” exhibition in Paris

April 6, 08 //
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Just a short post after a long hiatus, but I hope to post more in the upcoming months.

I know I wrote a few times about Rinko Kawauchi – with whom I had a very pleasant dinner in Tokyo a few weeks ago -, but since this is the first time that her famous series “Utatane” from 2001 is exhibited in a solo show outside Japan, I thought it is worth to mention it.

Rinko Kawauchi “Uatane”, at Art77, presented by Antoine de Vilmorin (until May 3).

Rinko Kawauchi: Untitled (from the series: Uatatane), 2001 ©Rinko Kawauchi

As far as I know there has not been much written about the series and book “Utatane” (in contrary to “Aila”)  and which has lead to Rinko’s national and international breakthrough. For “Utatane” (and for her book “Hanabi” [Fireworks]) the artist received the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award and the book was included in the “The Photobook: A History. Vol. 2″ by Parr and Badger. Badger wrote a very interesting comment on Rinko and “Utatane” in the photobook anthology:

Just when it seems that everything has been photographed, in every possible way, along comes a photographer, whose work is so original that the medium is renewed. Such a photographer is Rinko Kawauchi, who makes simple, lyrical pictures, so fresh and unusual that they are difficult to describe or classify.

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Naoya Hatakeyama at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

June 30, 06 //
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In 2003 the “Regionale 2004″ a project by North Rhine-Westphalia (a federal state in West Germany) commissioned Naoya Hatakeyama to document the defunct coal mine “Zeche Westfalen I/II Ahlen”.

Naoya Hatakeyama: Zeche Westfalen I/II Ahlen

From October 2003 to February 2004 Hatakeyama photographed the sites and structures that were home to tens of thousands of workers for over a century. The series, which I have not seen yet, neither on the wall nor in the book with the same name published just recently by Nazraeli Press, is on display at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo.

It seems that Hatakeyam kind of returned with the following series to a topic with which he ‘blasted’ into the Japanese photo scene in 1995, literally.
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Cultural Award to Daido Moriyama

November 28, 04 //
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I forgot this in my last post on Daido Moriyama:

Daido Moriyama receives the Culture Award from Dr. Susanne Lange

Daido Moriyma received the Cultural Award of the German Photographic Society (DGPh) in Cologne on November 1. The award is the most important photography award in Germany and is presented every year.

The award: a gold mounted lens

The award winners include internationally renowned scientists, inventors, writers, publishers, editors, lecturers, art directors and, in particular, top photographers from Germany and abroad. Previous photographers who received the price are (to name a few): August Sander, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Peter Keetman, David Hockney and Wim Wenders.
I had the pleasure to deliver the Keynote address on the artist. :-)

Daido Moriyama listens to the price speech by Ferdinand Brueggemann

27th New Contest of Photography

November 23, 04 //
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Yasuhiko Uchihara: Tomato

Yasuhiko Uchihara is the winner of the “Grand Prix” of the 27th New Contest of Photography (link in Japanese).

Canon launched the public competition project “New Cosmos of Photography” in the autumn of 1991, to discover, foster and support new faces in photography, who challenge to pursue possibilities in photographic expressions. Unrestricted and original works, experimental collaborative works of different genres in image expressions, works of digital images, and not to mention, works made with conventional plate cameras, are to be encouraged. The “New Cosmos of Photography” contest is held twice a year.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography will show the grand prix winner and the excellent work prize winners of the “New Cosmos of Photography 2004″ from November 27.

PS: Finally the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography set up a homepage in English. Unfortunatly the information on the exhibitions and events is, except the titles and dates, still in Japanese :-(.

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