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Photographers of Japan Vol.2 "Eikoh Hosoe's theatrical imagination"
Eikoh Hosoe, born 1933 and photographers of his generation, made a debut as a pure "post war generation". Photographers of generation above them, such as Ihee Kimura, Ken Domon and Yonosuke Natori has been working as photographers before the World War II. On the other hand, Hosoe and those who established photographer group "VIVO" with him in 1959, such as Shomei Tohmatsu, Ikko Narahara and Kikuji Kawada has entered univercities after the war, and started photography. Although they were strongly influenced by Domon and Kimura as an photographer, they begun to search for their own style in the late 1950s. With such movements came new styles that differs from a "Realism photography" which describes reality as it is, and a "news photography" which is based on newspapers and magazines. Hosoe was one of artists who stood on the edge, exploring new possibilities of photography with unique and experimental works since 1960s. Like series "Man and Woman"(1960) expressing the world of eros with Butoh-dancer Tatsumi Hijikata and his fellows, series "Ordeal by Roses"(1961-1962) visualizing the aesthetic fantasy of the writer Yukio Mishima, and series "Kamaitachi"(1965-1968) showing the communication between a rural community in north east Japan and its local religion using Tatsumi Hijikata as a model, Hosoe's work during this period still has a power to shock viewers of today. To simply explain the characteristic of Eikoh Hosoe's world of work, it is a manifestation of his incomparable theatrical imagination. As well as being a photographer, Hosoe is also a director who sets up a fictitious stage in a middle of a reality with his models, producing anti-realismic theater space. However, his "theatrical performance" is not peformed with ready made scenario, but depending on models physiological reaction and unconscious physical behaviour. It is clear to see from Hosoe's works, that he takes photographs impulsively, not knowing what comes a moment later. It seems that, passing the age of seventy during 2000s, Hosoe's theatrical imagination has broadened even wider and wilder. Looking at his recent series works "Ukiyoe Projections"(2007) and "Villa Bottini"(2009), Hosoe's creativity seems to be increasing its freshness. One should not see him just as a great master of the past, but also keep an eye on his present works.
All works listed above are owned by Toki-no-Wasuremono. For inquiry about our collection, please contact us from our inquiry form. BacknumberVol.16 "Ogawa Takayuki (1938 - 2008) − explorer of “shape” through photography"Vol.15 "Kitai Kazuo - Capturing “a scene I once saw…”" Vol.14 "Kazama Kensuke" Vol.13 "Narahara Ikko - Double Vision" Vol.12 "Q Ei and Vol.11 "Fukuhara Shinzo 1883-1948 -- Japanese Landscape Photography" Vol.10 "The city observer’s gaze Akihiko HIRASHIMA (1946~)" Vol.9 "Hitoshi FUGO 1947- -- The unusual world of works which fuses thought and technique" "ETSURO ISHIHARA - THE EXTRAORDINARY GALLERIST WHO TURNED PHOTOGRAPHY TO ART" Vol.8 "Iwata NAKAYAMA (1895-1949)" Vol.7 "KISEI KOBAYASHI (1968-)" Vol.6 "Tamiko NISHIMURA (1948-)" Vol.5 "Shigeo GOCHO (1946-83)" Vol.4 "Shoji UEDA -Locality open to the world-" Vol.3 "Yu OGATA, ICHIRO OGATA ONO -Dyslexia's picture of the world-" Vol.2 "Eikoh Hosoe's theatrical imagination" Vol.1 "maroon" -- Whereabouts of new works by Hiroshi Osaka
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