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PHOTOGRAPHY 4

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 12, 2015
'Ikko Narahara: Japanesque Zen'
May 11-July 4
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 21, 2015
Yoshihiko Ueda: a life with photography
"What remains is future" were words written on a bag I saw someone carrying at Yoshihiko Ueda's new exhibition "A life with Camera." It's the same phrase that appeared on badges Patti Smith handed out in New York nearly 10 years ago. Fittingly, her portrait now hangs among 300 photographs, which were...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 14, 2015
Kyotographie is jazzed up with notable photography
The curtain is about to rise on the 3rd Kyotographie festival of photography, and Lucille Reyboz, one of the two co-organizers, says that this is the most exciting but also most difficult time of the year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 26, 2015
Early photographers painted quite a pretty picture
One of the biggest problems with modern and contemporary art, for many people, is the seeming lack of skill or workmanship. The criticism is that contemporary art is a scam, in which the usual suspects are talentless fame-hungry artists, unscrupulous gallery owners and self-important "artspeak" critics....
WORLD
Mar 5, 2015
World Press Photo award withdrawn after controversy
World Press Photo withdrew one of its leading global awards for photojournalism on Wednesday after a controversy over standards that focused on allegations about the ethics of an Italian prizewinner.
CULTURE / Books
Feb 28, 2015
Tokyo Camera Style
The reflexive anxiety of checking out other people's cameras to see if theirs is better than yours is not really something to be proud of. However, admitting to addiction is one step to putting it behind you.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 26, 2015
Gabriel Orozco's connections with Japan
The photographer and I have been waiting for about half an hour to interview Gabriel Orozco. It's a little disappointing, but that's OK. Orozco has famously made disappointment part of his creative practice. While waiting we chat about how much we have been impressed and influenced by the artist's work,...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 21, 2015
Marguerite Paget: 'Get out, take a deep breath and go for it'
Kyotographie International Photography Festival spokeswoman Marguerite Paget on materialism, hammers and Bobby McFerrin
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2015
The peak that can move mountains
The current show, 'Fuji Paradigms: Visions of Mt. Fuji,' at the Izu Photo Museum is in two parts. One is an amalgamation of images in varied formats that depict Mount Fuji as a national symbol, and the other is a tightly focused collection that documents the work of one man, Count Masanao Abe, who photographed...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 5, 2015
When nostalgia entangles with an unsettling past
When Koichi Watari, the director of the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art contacted Yoshitomo Nara to organize a solo exhibition of his work, the artist was traveling around Hokkaido and Sakhalin with photographer and hard-core explorer Naoki Ishikawa. Nara suggested to Watari that they do a two-person...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jan 25, 2015
It's OK to film people in public in Japan, if the conditions justify it
A reader asks, 'In Japan, is it OK to film other people in public?'
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2015
'Fuji Paradigms: Visions of Mt. Fuji'
Mount Fuji, with its beautifully symmetrical ridge lines and snowy peak, has always attracted photographers from near and afar. With nearly 300 stills and posters from its collection, the Izu Photo Museum in Shizuoka celebrates this iconic landmark, charting its representation in the history of Japan....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 8, 2015
'The Collection 2015'
The two rooms of "The Collection 2015" offer two different kinds of collections.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Dec 13, 2014
Photographer strives to preserve the memory of capital's hub for eternity
There is only one person in the country who has "Tokyo Station photographer" printed on a business card — Naoki Sasaki.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 11, 2014
Still photography that will always remain moving
In the late 1950s, after having studied law and while pursuing a masters degree in art history, Ikko Narahara took two series of images that depicted groups of people at the extreme edges of society. One was of a woman's prison in Wakayama Prefecture and the other a Trappist monastery in Hokkaido. These...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2014
'Narahara Ikko: Domains'
It has been 56 years since photographer Ikko Narahara's early masterpiece "Oukoku (Kingdom)" (1958) has been shown in Tokyo.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 25, 2014
In the footsteps of Isabella Bird
With a curiosity for exploring new lands and cultures in the late 1800s, British author, traveler and naturalist Isabella Bird blazed quite a trail, one that is followed lovingly by Kiyonori Kanasaka with his collection of photographs that capture Bird's heart and vision, replicating the images she witnessed...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 23, 2014
What words alone cannot convey
"Can writing succeed as the subject of photography?" This is a question that troubles Paris-based artist Yuki Onodera.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Oct 19, 2014
Renaissance man scours the globe for stories
Manuel Bruges has lived life to the full, as photographer, inventor, journalist, chef, boxer and more.

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