Kikuji Kawada “The Map 1960-1965” at Photo Gallery International.
IMHO this exhibition is a must see if you happen to be in Tokyo until Feb. 10.
Except in publications I have not seen his legendary book “The Map” yet, but it seems to be one of the most impressive photography books of the 20s century…
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Tomoko Sawada “Desire to Mimic”, at MAK, Vienna, until Feb. 6, 2005
This year was very successful for Tomoko Sawada. She just had her second exhibition at Zabriskie Gallery, New York, she received the prestigious Kimura Ihee Award in Tokyo and the International Center of Photography Infinity Award in the category of Young Photographer. Now she has her first solo show at a museum.
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Over ten years ago when Yurie Nagashima won at age 20 the Urban Art#2 Award (1993) she became almost overnight the first “girly photographer” (onna no ko shashinka) in Japan. She and Hiromix who entered the scene in 1995 became role models for many young Japanese women and inspired them to become a photographer too. Since then the number of female photographers in photography schools increased considerably to around 50%. Both, Yurie Nagashima and Hiromix, talked about themselves and their lives through their pictures, but IMHO Nagashima was and is much more personal in her work not only depicting her friends but also the daily life of her family (including nude photographs of her father and mother).
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Only a few days are left for the exhibition of Kimura Ihei (Ihee) at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The exhibition concentrates on Ihei’s work after 1945.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Étant donné: Le Grand Verre. At Fondation Cartier, Paris
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Mathematical Forms. Surfaces 0009
Unfortunately, I missed the exhibition at Fondation Cartier (until Feb. 27, 2005) when I was in Paris recently, but it seems that Hiroshi Sugimoto is returning to his distinctive, extremely reduced conceptual and clear cut style. The catalogue to this complete new series is scheduled for December 10.
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Shomei Tomatsu: Bottle Melted and Deformed by Atomic Bomb Heat, Radiation, and Fire, Nagasaki, 1961 © Shomei Tomatsu
Shomei Tomatsu: A Bottle that Was Melted by Heat Wave and Fires, Nagasaki, 1961
With the exhibition Shomei Tomatsu – Skin of the Nation the photographer receives a large retrospective at the Japan Society New York (until Jan. 2, 2005)
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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).
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Mika Ninagawa: Liquid Dreams, 2003
Mika Ninagawa at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Mika Ninagawa: Liquid Dreams, 2003
Mika Ninagawa was born in 1972 in Tokyo. She graduated from the Graphic Design Department at Tama Art University in 1997. In 2001 she received the prestigious Ihei Kimura Photography Award. Mika is mainly doing advertising and fashion photography. Her work was included in group shows like “On Happiness – Contemporary Japanese Photography” (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2003), “Keep in Touch. Positions in Japanese Photography” (Kunsthaus Graz, Austria) and she had solo exhibitions like “Liquid Dreams” (Parco Museum, Tokyo, 2003) and “mika over the rainbow” (Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo) which travelled in Japan in 2004.
Mika is one of my favourite Japanese photographers, working on the borderline between (J-)pop and art photography. The photo is from her book Liquid Dreams.
Mika Ninagawa: Liquid Dreams, 2003 (Cover)
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.
Daido Moriyama: Provoke no. 3, 1969
Daido Moriyama: New Japan´s Scenic Trio 2: Ueno Terminal Station, 1982
Besides 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: Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, 1970
Daido Moriyama: Setagaya, Tokyo, 1971
Daido Moriyama: Komoro, Nagano Prefecture, 1977
Daido Moriyama: Yokosuka, 1970
Daido Moriyama: Tokyo, 1970
