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    This document provides an overview of important schools and photographers in Japanese photography. It discusses the seminal groups VIVO and Provoke, which pioneered personal views and conceptual approaches. Individual photographers like Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, and Takuma Nakahira produced influential books. More recent figures like Yurie Nagashima, Hiromix, and Ume Kayo address themes of identity and family. Throughout, Japanese photographers emphasize the printed book and personal exchanges over online presences.

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    This document provides an overview of important schools and photographers in Japanese photography. It discusses the seminal groups VIVO and Provoke, which pioneered personal views and conceptual approaches. Individual photographers like Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, and Takuma Nakahira produced influential books. More recent figures like Yurie Nagashima, Hiromix, and Ume Kayo address themes of identity and family. Throughout, Japanese photographers emphasize the printed book and personal exchanges over online presences.

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    This document provides an overview of important schools and photographers in Japanese photography. It discusses the seminal groups VIVO and Provoke, which pioneered personal views and conceptual approaches. Individual photographers like Eikoh Hosoe, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, and Takuma Nakahira produced influential books. More recent figures like Yurie Nagashima, Hiromix, and Ume Kayo address themes of identity and family. Throughout, Japanese photographers emphasize the printed book and personal exchanges over online presences.

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    The passage provides an overview of important Japanese photography groups and photographers from the 20th century, including VIVO, Provoke, and several individual photographers like Nagashima, Hiromix and others.

    VIVO was a short-lived Japanese photo agency formed in 1957 with the goals of presenting personal views of Japan and renouncing photographic realism in favor of more conceptual styles.

    Provoke aimed to create a new photographic language that could transcend words. It promoted rethinking conventions like producing rough, blurred images and prioritizing conceptualism over realism. It also emphasized chance and revealing the unknown through process.

    JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY

    an introduction to schools and those photographers


    you’d be embarrassed not to know about!
    UEDA AND DOMON
    • Update
    VIVO
    VIVO - overview

    • Short lived Japanese photo agency formed in 1957


    by Shomei Tomatsu, Kikuchi Kawada, Eikoh
    Hosoe and Ikko Narahara.

    • Seminal “junin no me (eyes of ten)” exhibition.

    • Personal views of Japan. Renounced realism.


    VIVO photographers - key
    publications

    • Eikoh Hosoe - Kamaitachi.

    • Shomei Tomatsu and Ken Domon - Hiroshima


    Nagasaki Document 1961.

    • Kikuchi Kawada - Chizu.


    Eikoh Hosoe
    Eikoh Hosoe
    Eikoh Hosoe
    Shomei Tomatsu
    Shomei Tomatsu
    Shomei Tomatsu
    PROVOKE
    Provoke - overview

    • Late 1960s to mid 1970s.

    • Short lived, low cost photography magazine.

    • Founders - Kohi Taki, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi and
    Daido Moriyama.

    • Klein and Tomatsu influenced many of these photographers.

    • Aim - to create a new photographic language that could transcend the written word.

    • Rethinking photographic conventions: “are bure boke” - rough, blurred, out of focus.

    • Conceptualism over realism.

    • Chance and the unknown to be revealed through the photographic process.


    Provoke photographers - key
    publications

    • Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama.

    • Hotel, Shibuya - Daido Moriyama.

    • For a language to come - Takuma Nakahira.

    • Toshi-e - Yutaka Takanashi.


    Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama
    Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama
    Bye Bye Photography - Daido Moriyama
    For a Language to Come - Nakahira
    For a Language to Come - Nakahira
    Toshi e - Takanashi (check)
    Toshi e - Takanashi
    YURIE NAGASHIMA AND
    HIROMIX
    Yurie Nagashima

    • Received urbanart award in 1993 for her “Kazoku”


    series of pictures of her and her family in the nude -
    which some commentators argue is a contemporary
    take on Fukase Nasahisa’s project of the same name.

    • Araki nominated her for award.

    • Compared to Nan Goldin.

    • Concerned with family, gender, identity, sexuality


    and censorship.
    Yurie Nagashima - Kazoku
    Yurie Nagashima - Kazoku
    Yurie Nagashima
    Hiromix

    • Pioneer for female photographers in Japan.

    • Won 1995 Canon New Cosmos award as a teenager.

    • Championed by Araki.

    • Self portrait heavy, snapshot aesthetic. Colour.

    • “I take photos of what I like.” Claims she is influenced by


    no-one and has “no particular theme”.

    • Participant and observer of working class youth culture.


    Her subjects “don’t expect anything from the future.”
    Girl’s Blue - Hiromix
    Girl’s Blue - Hiromix
    Girl’s Blue - Hiromix
    POST NAGASHIMA AND
    HIROMIX
    Ume Kayo
    Ume Kayo
    Ume Kayo
    Ume Kayo
    Ume Kayo
    add motoyuki daifu
    OUTLIERS
    • Jun Abe

    • Kohei Yoshiyuki

    • Rinko Kawauchi (to add)

    • Lieko Shiga

    • Daisuke Yokota

    • Seiji Kurata
    Jun Abe
    Jun Abe
    Kohei Yoshiyuki
    Kohei Yoshiyuki
    Kohei Yoshiyuki
    Lieko Shiga
    Lieko Shiga
    Kohei Yoshiyuki
    Daisuke Yokota
    Daisuke Yokota
    Seiji Kurata
    Seiji Kurata
    Seiji Kurata
    Seiji Kurata
    GENERAL PRINCIPLES
    • Importance of the print and the photo book.

    • Very few share their work online or even have


    websites.

    • Photographers on the whole are very humble.

    • Very much an in person community.

    • Often a surreal and personal view of the world


    FURTHER READING AND
    USEFUL RESOURCES
    • The photo book as an object.

    • Dan Abbe’s blog - Street Level Japan.

    • Japan Exposures - blog and online Japanese photo


    book store.

    • Japan-Photo blog

    • Fraction Magazine

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