Chronology in ''Creaturers.'' is a Japanese

street photographer Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and cand ...

and educator who lives and works in Osaka. As of autumn 2014, he has produced six books of photographs of people in cities, including ''Citizens: 1979–1983'', which won the

Society of Photography Award The Society of Photography Award (「写真の会」賞, ''Shashin no Kai shō'') is an award presented annually since 1989 by the (Tokyo-based) Society of Photography (写真の会, ''Shashin no Kai'') for outstanding work in photography. Recipie ...

. He was the official photographer of the

butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders ...

dance group Byakko-sha () from 1982 to 1994.

Life and work

Abe was born in Osaka. He studied photography at Ōsaka Shashin Senmon Gakkō (now Visual Arts Osaka).Jun Abe
, Vacuum Press. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014. From 1982 to 1994 he was the official photographer for Byakko-sha (), a

dance group based in Kyoto.Paris Photo: 14.17 Nov 2013 Grand Palais
,

Paris Photo Paris Photo is an annual international art fair dedicated to photography. It was founded in 1997, and is held in November at the Grand Palais exhibition hall and museum complex, located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement in Par ...

. Accessed 7 September 2014.Paris Photo 2013: Ishiuchi Miyako, Abe Jun
, The Third Gallery Aya. Accessed 7 September 2014. In this capacity he travelled extensively in 1982 and 1983. From 2002 Abe has taught at the Visual Arts Osaka college. He has been a member of the Osaka-based photography collective running Vacuum Press since 2006. Since 2013 he has been represented by Hatten Gallery.

Books

* = ''Kurīchāzu: Kami no kemono-tachi = Creaturers.''The colophon shows the short Japanese title (''Kurīchāzu'') alone. The subtitle (''Kami no kemono-tachi'') appears nowhere other than the title page. ''Creaturers'' icappears on the front cover and title page and also in the list of exhibitions. It appears to be a mistake, because (if it rhymed with "treasurers"), "creaturers" would have different

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(most likely ); as it is, the pronunciation of the Japanese title matches that of "creatures". Village, 1989. . Black and white photographs; essay by Isamu Ōsuka () and artist chronology in Japanese. * = ''Ōsaka.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2007. . Vacuum Press 1. Colour photographs.The publisher's page about ''Ōsaka'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) i
here
* = ''Citizens: 1979–1983.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2009. . Vacuum Press 4. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.The publisher's page about ''Citizens'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) i

* = ''Kokubyaku nōto: 1996–1999 = Black & white note: 1996–1999.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2010. . Vacuum Press 5. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.The publisher's page about ''Black & white note'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) i

* = ''Manira: August, 1983 = Manila: August, 1983.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2011. . Vacuum Press 7. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.The publisher's page about ''Manila'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) i

* = ''Kokubyaku nōto: 2 = Black & white note 2.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2012. . Vacuum Press 9. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.The publisher's page about ''Black & white note 2'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) i

*''2001.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2013. . Vacuum Press 11. Black and white photographs; no captions or other text.The publisher's page about ''2001'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 8 September 2014) i

*''Busan.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2014. Black and white photographs.The publisher's page about ''Busan'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) i

* = ''1981'' (jō) = ''1981: Top.''"Top" is a literal translation of ''jō'' () in other contexts; and "bottom" is a literal translation of ''ge'' () in other contexts. In this context, ''jō'' and ''ge'' simply mean volumes 1 and 2 respectively of a two-volume work. (As is common for two-volume works in Japan, the two are priced and sold separately.) Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 14. First volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs.The publisher's page about ''1981: Top'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) i

* = ''1981'' (ge) = ''1981: Bottom.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2015. Vacuum Press 15. Second volume of a two-volume set. Black and white photographs.The publisher's page about ''1981: Bottom'' (as archived by the Wayback Machine on 3 April 2016) i
here
* = ''1981 Kōbe = 1981: Kobe.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2016. *''New York.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2017.The publisher's page about ''New York'' i
here
*''Citizens in Society 1989~1994.'' Osaka: Vacuum, 2019.The publisher's page about ''Citizens in Society 1989~1994'' i
here

Solo exhibitions

*2006: ''Black & White Note: Box,'' Gallery 10:06, Osaka. *2012: ''Citizens/1983,'' Gallery Niépce, Tokyo. *2012/2013: ''Citizens,'' The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. *2013: ''Black & White Note, Black & White Note 2,'' Place M Photo Gallery, Tokyo. Related to his Society of Photography Award.

Group exhibitions

*2011: ''Citizens,'' Quad Gallery,

Format International Photography Festival Format International Photography Festival (stylised as FORMAT) is a biennial photography festival held in Derby, UK. It takes place in March in various venues in Derby including Quad, University of Derby, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derwent Va ...

, Derby, UK, 4 March–8 May 2011. *2013:

, Grand Paris, Paris. Presented by The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. *2013: ''Citizens,'' The Third Gallery Aya, Osaka. With

Miyako Ishiuchi , is a Japanese photographer. In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. In March 2014, she became the third Japanese photographer, following Hiroshi Hamaya and Hiroshi Sugimoto, to received the Hasselblad Foundation International Aw ...

. Part of the exhibition ''Paris Photo 2013''. *2014: FotoIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 17 October – 18 November 2014.

Awards

*2013:

(''Shashin no Kai shō'') from the Society of Photography.Prize of 'Society of Photography'
, Society of Photography. Accessed 6 September 2014.

Notes

References

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