Japanese – Bildersturm

Mao Ishikawa: Morika’s Dreams – A Port Town Elegy – Red Flower, The Women of Okinawa

By: Thomas Schulz 25 May 2019

Contemporary, PhotobookBlack and White, Color, 石川真生, documentary photography, Japanese, Mao Ishikawa, Okinawa, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, Subculture, women1 Comment

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.

Lieko Shiga: Rasen Kaigan (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2013)

By: Thomas Schulz 31 Dec 201814 May 2019

Contemporary, PhotobookColor, documentary photography, 螺旋海岸, Identity, Japanese, Kitakama, landscape photography, Lieko Shiga, Portrait Photography, Rural, Street Photography, 志賀理江子Leave a Comment

Lieko Shiga was born in 1980 in the prefecture of Aichi and lives and works in Sendai, Japan. She studied at Chelsea University of Art and Design, London, graduating with a BA in Fine Arts New Media in 2004. She received the coveted Kimura Ihei Photography Award in 2008.

Keizo Kitajima: Photo Express: Tokyo (Steidl, 2011)

By: Thomas Schulz 25 Mar 201820 Jun 2018

Classic, PhotobookArtists' books, Black and White, Japanese, Keizo Kitajima, Performance, Photography, Portrait Photography, Street, Tokyo, Urban, 北島敬三1 Comment

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.

Rinko Kawauchi: Illuminance (Aperture, 2011)

By: Thomas Schulz 19 Mar 201820 Jun 2018

Contemporary, PhotobookBeauty, Color, Japanese, Landscape, Portrait Photography, Rinko Kawauchi, Street Photography, visual diary, 川内倫子Leave a Comment

Illuminance is a book by Rinko Kawauchi, one of Japan’s most popular female photographers today.

Keiko Nomura: Okinawa (Pierre von Kleist Editions, 2017)

By: Thomas Schulz 1 Mar 20185 Mar 2018

Contemporary, PhotobookColor, 野村恵子, Identity, Japanese, Keiko Nomura, Okinawa, Portrait Photography, Street PhotographyLeave a Comment

Keiko Nomura (Kobe, Japan) studied photography in Los Angeles and graduated from Visual Arts College Osaka. She has published 6 books.

Osamu Kanemura: Concrete Octopus (Pierre von Kleist Editions, 2017)

By: Thomas Schulz 17 Feb 20185 Mar 2018

Contemporary, Photobookarchitecture, Black and White, 金村修, Identity, Japanese, Osamu Kanemura, Street Photography, Tokyo, Urban1 Comment

Osamu Kanemura (b.1964) is a photographer born and based in Tokyo. Since 1992, he has had more than twenty solo exhibitions in Tokyo, New York and other cities.

Nobuyoshi Araki: Silent Wishes (Bibliothek der Provinz, 2008)

By: Thomas Schulz 3 Aug 201724 May 2019

Classic, PhotobookBeauty, Black and White, 荒木経惟, Family, Identity, Japanese, Nobuyoshi Araki, Portrait Photography, Sentimental Journey, Yoko My LoveLeave a Comment

Except for a handful of photos from Araki’s Love by Leica series, the book is devoted to loving photos of Nobuyoshi Araki’s wife Yoko. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Rupertinum Oct. 4, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009.

Shōmei Tōmatsu: Skin of the Nation (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004)

By: Thomas Schulz 14 Jan 20175 Mar 2018

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, Color, Identity, Japanese, Portrait Photography, post-war era, Shōmei Tōmatsu, Street Photography, Subculture, 東松照明Leave a Comment

Shomei Tomatsu, who died aged 82 in 2012, was perhaps the most influential Japanese photographer of the postwar era. With texts by Leo Rubinfien, Sandra S. Phillips and John W. Dower.

Nobuyoshi Araki; Nan Goldin: Tokyo Love – Spring Fever 1994 (Scalo, 1995)

By: Thomas Schulz 7 Sep 20153 Oct 2019

Classic, PhotobookAdolescents, American, Beauty, Color, featured, Identity, Japanese, Nan Goldin, Nobuyoshi Araki, Portrait Photography, Studio Photography, Subculture, TokyoLeave a Comment

In 1994 Goldin and Araki decided to collaborate on a project about adolescents in Tokyo. They set out to capture the joys, thrills, and anxieties of youth.

Nobuyoshi Araki: Shijyo Tokyo ( Edition Stemmle, 1998)

By: Thomas Schulz 21 Jul 201524 May 2019

Classic, PhotobookBeauty, Black and White, Color, Flowers, Japanese, Nobuyoshi Araki, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, Tokyo, UrbanLeave a Comment

This book by Nobuyoshi Araki strikes a contrast between saturated flower studies and damaged black and white scenes of everyday life in Tokyo. Includes essays by Zdenek Felix and Ulf Erdmann Ziegler. It was published to accompany a major exhibition at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 1998.

Yutaka Takanashi: Toshi-e (Books on Books #6)

By: Thomas Schulz 14 Jul 20155 Mar 2018

Classic, PhotobookBlack and White, Identity, Japanese, Portrait Photography, Street Photography, Urban, Yutaka Takanashi1 Comment

Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e (Towards the City) is a landmark two-volume set of books from one one of the founders of the avant-garde Japanese magazine Provoke.

Foam Magazine #40: After Araki

By: Thomas Schulz 8 Jul 201515 Mar 2018

Contemporary, PhotozineBeauty, Color, Emi Anrakuji, Identity, Japanese, Landscape, Mayumi Hosokura, Momo Okabe, Portrait PhotographyLeave a Comment

This 40th issue is dedicated to the life and legacy of Nobuyoshi Araki. It also presents a selection of contemporary Japanese photographers influenced or mentored by Araki.