Mika KOBAYASHI reads stories behind photographs

July 24 Wed. - August 3 Sat. 2013
OPEN ALL DAYS DURING EXHIBITION.

Lived in the USA from 2007 to 2008, worked for ICP (International Center of Photography) and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's photo exhibitions and researches, Mika KOBAYASHI has faced tremendous amount of photography works and countless articles new and old, in and out of the states. Without doubt she is one of the sprited photo researcher who has been "decoding" numerous photography works. From October 2011 to April 2013, She has serially posted 33 essays titled "Mika KOBAYASHI reads stories behind photographs". These essays talked about photography works picked from Toki-no-Wasuremono collection and described their backgrounds, their compositions and explained intensions / meanings very throughly.

Exhibiting artists: Herbert BAYER, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lewis CARROLL, WEEGEE, Bettina RHEIMS, Ralph STEINER, Joel-Peter Witkin, Irina IONESCO, Helen LEVITT, Peter BEARD, Wynn BULLOCK, Jonas MEKAS

*Links above jumps to Japanese pages except for Jonas MEKAS.

<Mika KOBAYASHI reads stories behind photographs> works list
July 24 Wed. - August 3 Sat. 2013

No.	Serial No.	Image	Artist	Title	Date	Medium	Measurement	Ed.	Sign
1	1		Herbert BAYER	"Untitled"	1930s (Printed in 1970s)	Gelatin Silver Print on baryta paper	37.7×29.0cm	40 (18/40)	Signed on the back
2	2		Manuel Alvarez Bravo	"The Crouched Ones / Los agachados"	c.1932-1934 (Printed later)	Gelatin Silver Print	22.4×29.5cm		Signed
5	6		Lewis CARROLL	"Dorothy Kitchin"	1879 (Printed later)	Gelatin Silver Print	15.0x12.8cm
6	7		WEEGEE	"The fashionable people"	1943 (Printed later)	Gelatin Silver Print	26.7×36.5cm		Stamped on the back
8	10		Bettina RHEIMS	"SYLVIA AUX LUNETTES, PARIS"	1984	Gelatin Silver Print	61.0x50.2cm	15	Signed
11	14		Ralph STEINER	"Untitled" (Bicycle)	Later than 1922	Gelatin Silver Print	11.6×9.0cm		Signed
13	17		Joel-Peter Witkin	"Woman once a Bird" from <Tibet House Portfolio>	1990	Platinum Print	31.6×27.0cm	100	Signed
14	19		Irina IONESCO	"Eva"		Gelatin Silver Print	44.3×30.0cm		Signed
15	20		Helen LEVITT	"Mexico 1941"	1981	Gelatin Silver Print	18.0×21.1cm		Signed *Gendai Hanga Center sticker attached
16	22		Peter BEARD	"San Quentin Summer 1971 (T.C. & Bobby Beausoleil)"	1971 (Printed in 1982)	Gelatin Silver Print (with little bit of drawing)	22.5×33.5cm	75	Signed
19	25		Wynn BULLOCK	"Navigation Without Numbers"	1957	Gelatin Silver Print	17.8x23.0cm		Signed
22	31		Jonas MEKAS	"Oona, one year old... 1975. From a film in progress."		CIBA print	35.4x27.5cm		Signed

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