Issei Suda: My Japan

Issei Suda – My Japan is an introduction to his life’s work, from the 1960s until the publication of his final book in 2018. It includes photographs from his early days for the avant-garde theatre troupe Tenjo Sajiki, and iconic series, such as Fushi Kaden and Waga Tokyo 100.

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4 Essential Japanese Photobooks

4 Essential Japanese Photobooks on Bildersturm: (1) Keizo Kitajima: Photo Express: Tokyo; (2) Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e (Towards the City): Books on Books #6; (3) Nobuyoshi Araki; Nan Goldin: Tokyo Love – Spring Fever 1994; (4) Takuma Nakahira : Circulation: Date, Place, Events.

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Masao Yamamoto: Small Things in Silence – Second edition (RM, 2020)

Born in 1957 in Gamagori, in the Japanese prefecture of Aichi, Masao Yamamoto is a photographer who began his art studies as an oil painter under the supervision of Goro Saito in his hometown. Small Things in Silence offers a perspective on twenty years in the career of one of Japan’s most important photographers.

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Takuma Nakahira : Circulation: Date, Place, Events

In 1971 photographer Takuma Nakahira participated in the Seventh Paris Biennale for emerging artists from around the world. In his experimental project Circulation: Date, Place, Events Nakahira challenged himself to photograph his surroundings and in the same day exhibit the results for a duration of approximately one week.

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Mao Ishikawa: Morika’s Dreams (2014) / A Port Town Elegy (2015) / Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa (2017)

Mao Ishikawa was born in 1953 in Ôgimi Village, in the northern part of Okinawa. She started her photography career in a workshop guided by the famous Japanese photographer Tômatsu Shômei, in Tokyo in 1973.

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Keizo Kitajima: Photo Express: Tokyo

Photo Express: Tokyo is a facsimile of the legendary series of twelve booklets published by Keizo Kitajima on the occasion of his exhibition “Photo Express: Tokyo” at CAMP gallery in Tokyo in 1979.

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