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Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
The is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum also has a movie theater. Until 2014, the museum nicknamed itself "Syabi" (pronounced ''shabi''); since 2016, it has called itself "Top Museum". History and exhibitions The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography opened in a temporary building in 1990 and moved to its current building in Yebisu Garden Place in 1995. At that time, it was one of the first photography galleries in Japan not to be dedicated to the works of a single photographer. Most of the exhibitions since then have been themed rather than devoted to a single photographer, but exhibitions have been dedicated to such photographers of the past as Berenice Abbott (1990) and Tadahiko Hayashi (1993–94), and also to living photographers including Martin Parr (2007) and Hiromi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meguro, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947. Meguro is predominantly residential in character, but is also home to light industry, corporate head offices, the Komaba campus of University of Tokyo as well as fifteen foreign embassies and consulates. Residential neighborhoods include, Jiyugaoka, Kakinokizaka, and Nakameguro. As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 277,171 and a population density of 18,890 persons per km2. The total area is 14.67 km2. Meguro is also used to refer to the area around Meguro Station, which is not located in Meguro ward, but in neighboring Shinagawa's Kamiōsaki district. History The Higashiyama shell mound in the north of the ward contains remains from the paleolithic, Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods. The area now known as Meguro was formerly two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadayuki Naitoh
is a Japanese photographer known for his photographs of jazz musicians and of Africa. Naitoh was born in Asakusa, Tokyo in 1941. He graduated from a photography course at in 1964. In 1970 he set up his own company, Photohouse OM. From an early age he became interested in jazz and photography, and he began photographing jazz musicians in performance in his early 20s. In 1970, he published a photo book on the trumpet player Terumasa Hino. He travelled widely in Africa, Asia and America, leading to a number of unusual and arresting images: ''Zebra,'' a collection of his photographs of zebras, was published in 1988, and other works have used design themes from zebras, often in collages. More recently he has moved into photographing lotuses. Outside Japan, Naitoh is perhaps best known for his photographs of Miles Davis, which include those used on the sleeves of the 1976 albums ''Pangaea'' and '' Agharta,'' and a limited edition CD release of '' Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiichi Moriwaki
was a Japanese photographer. Almost nothing about Moriwaki is known. In the 1930s he was a member of the Osaka Camera Group ( ''Ōsaka Kamera Gurūpu'') of Kiyoshi Koishi, and in the late thirties a member of Rōka Photography Club ( ''Rōka Shashin Kurabu''). The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography The is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ... holds works by Moriwaki in its permanent collection.As can be inferred from Moriwaki's inclusion in ''Nihon shashinka jiten.'' Notes References *''Nihon no shashinka'' () / ''Biographic Dictionary of Japanese Photography.'' Tokyo: Nichigai Associates, 2005. . P.407. Despite the English-language alternative title, all in Japanese. *''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers.'' Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aizō Morikawa
was a renowned Japanese portrait and commercial photographer. Born in Fukui Prefecture in 1878, Fukui went some time around 1897 to Sapporo, where he studied photography under Tokiwa Mishima in Mishima's studio. Around 1907, he moved to Tokyo, where he studied under Kazumasa Ogawa. Morikawa ended up with his own studio, Morikawa Shashinkan (, which became renowned as outstanding in Tokyo and the premier studio in Japan for ''omiai'' photography. Morikawa died in Tokyo on 5 February 1949. Some of Morikawa's work is in the permanent collection of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography The is an art museum concentrating on photography. As the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it was founded by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and is in Meguro-ku, a short walk from Ebisu station in southwest Tokyo. The museum al ....So denoted by the inclusion of Morikawa in the book ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers''. Notes Japanese photographers Portr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiko Matsumoto
is a Japanese photographer. Biography Michiko Matsumoto was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, in 1950, and in 1974 graduated from Hosei University (Tokyo). She is currently based in Tokyo. The artist's early work of the 1980s included several series of portraits of artists living in various countries and the principal dancers of major dance companies. She has published 13 books of photography. Her works are in the collections of a number of museums internationally. Exhibitions Selected solo exhibitions * 1974 "Yoko Ono in New York" 3points, Tokyo * 1978 "Women Come Alive" Pepe, Tokyo * 1978 "In South East Asia" Hankyu Art Gallery, Osaka * 1981 "Niki de Saint Phalle" Space Niki, Tokyo * 1983 "Portraits of New York Women" Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Sapporo * 1986 "Niki de Saint Phalle" Parco SR6, Tokyo * 1988 "Portraits ~ Women Artists" Soho Photo Gallery, New York U.S.A * 1989 "Portraits of Dancers 1" Gallery Selare, Tokyo * 1990 "Portraits of Women Artists" Keihan Art Gallery, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seiji Kurata
was a Japanese photographer. Career Kurata was born in Chūō-ku, Tokyo, 1945. He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1968. He taught in secondary school and worked in oils, printmaking, and experimental movies. He practised under Daidō Moriyama in an independent photography workshop in 1976. Kurata won the fifth Kimura Ihei Award in 1980 for his first book, ''Flash Up.'' For the black-and-white photographs here, Kurata used flash and a medium format camera, resulting in a detailed portrait of a world of ''bōsōzoku,'' gangsters, rightists, strippers, transvestites, and so on: as Parr and Badger point out, these are old subjects; but in his "highly polished, detailed" work, Kurata "has an unerring instinct for pictures that suggest stories". ''Photo Cabaret'' and ''80's Family'' continued in this direction. This Japanese work of Kurata's is anthologized in his later volume ''Japan.'' Kurata won the PSJ award in 1992. A long stay in Mongol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motoichi Kumagai
was a Japanese photographer and illustrator of books for children, known for his portrayal of rural and school life. He has illustrated numerous children's books, books containing his photography, and other works. His works have won prizes, beginning with a photography prize from the ''Mainichi Shimbun'' in 1955. He is sometimes credited as Motokazu Kumagai or Motoiti Kumagai. Biography Kumagai was born on 12 July 1909 in the village of (now part of Achi), Shimoina District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. His given name is generally romanized as "Motoichi", but is also sometimes written as "Motoiti" or "Motokazu". From 1930 to 1933, Kumagai worked as a teacher. He had his first work for children published in the May 1932 issue of the magazine ''Kodomo no Kuni''. In 1936, he bought a Pearlette camera (a Konishiroku derivative of the Vest Pocket Kodak), with a simple meniscus lens, and started to use this to photograph village life. His first photograph collection was published tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Komoto
__NOTOC__ is a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air. Born Masaaki Komoto (, ''Komoto Masaaki'') in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935,Mihashi Junko (), "Nomoto Akira", ''Nihon shashinka jiten'' () / ''328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers'' (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ), p.139. (Despite the English language alternative title, in Japanese only.) Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.Shizen e / shizen kara ", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008. He studied at , graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of |
Takeji Iwamiya
was a Japanese photographer particularly known for his depiction of architecture, gardens, and Japanese crafts. Career Iwamiya was born on 4 January 1920 in Yonago, Tottori, the second son of parents running a shop selling traditional confectionery. An uncle of his ran a commercial photography studio, and this triggered the boy's interest in photography; but as a high school student he was keenest on baseball. After graduation from high school he worked Hankyu Department Store in Umeda (Osaka), where he entered the Mitsuwa photography club (, ''Mitsuya shashin kurabu''), led by Bizan Ueda and Nakaji Yasui. Following success in a photographic contest arranged by ''Asahi Shinbun'', Iwamiya was invited to join the Tampei Photography Club and went on to become an assistant of Yasui's. He joined the Nankai Hawks in 1939 but left after half a year and in 1941 was sent to Manchukuo as a photographer. Iwamiya returned to ainlandJapan before the end of the war, and after the war opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hisae Imai
was a Japanese photographer who specialized in the photography of horses. Biography Born in Tokyo in 1931, Imai graduated from Bunka Gakuin () in 1952. Her father owned a photography studio in the Matsuya department store in Ginza, and after graduation she was encouraged to go into photography as well. She had her first solo exhibition in 1956 and went on to win several awards such as the Newcomer's Award from the Photographic Society of Japan and the Camera Geijutsu Art Award. In 1962 Imai was in a car accident that left her temporarily blind for a year and a half, which left her unable to create photographs. After the accident, Shuji Terayama invited her to watch a horse race with him. She was very moved by the horses, and after meeting the racehorse Nijinsky in 1970, she took up photography again. From the 1970s onward, most of her numerous solo exhibitions were of photographs of horses. Imai died in a hospital in Shinjuku on 17 February 2009. Permanent collections Imai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Life and work Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York. While studying sociology at Penn State, he saw Michelangelo Antonioni's film ''Blowup'' in 1968. Influenced by the film, he purchased his first camera and began taking night classes in photography at the School of Visual Arts of New York. Fascinated with people on the street and the idea of visual spontaneity, Gilden turned to a career in photography. His work is characterized by his use of flash photography. He has worked in black and white most of his life, but he began shooting in color and digital when he was introduced to the Leica S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
