is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist working in the genres

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portraiture A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...

street photography 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 ca ...

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, research-based and

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. In 2000, Nagashima was awarded the prestigious

Kimura Ihei Award The is a Japanese photography award. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ''Asahi Shimbun'' and the magazine ''Asahi Camera'', in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is give ...

. Nagashima is a photography lecturer at Waseda,

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and Musashino Universities in Tokyo and a visiting professor at Kyoto Art University.

Early work

Yurie Nagashima rose to national fame in Japan after receiving the second annual Urbanart award hosted by the Parco Gallery in Tokyo in 1993 for a series of photographs depicting herself and her family in the nude. Nagashima was nominated for the award by

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, one of Japan's best known photographers. At the time, Nagashima was still a student at

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in Tokyo from where she graduated in 1995 with a BA in visual communication design.Yurie Nagashima
", SCAI the Bathhouse. In 1995, Nagashima had a two-person exhibition with the American photographer

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at the Parco Gallery, Tokyo. Following this encounter with Opie, Nagashima embarked on a MFA at the

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under her supervision. In at times provocative photographs, Nagashima has tested public perceptions on obscenity and

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.Roscoe, Bruce (2007). ''Windows on Japan: a walk through place and perception.'' New York: Algora, p. 278.

Photography Monographs

Nagashima has published numerous important photography monographs that deal with the family, gender, identity and sexuality, such as ''Senaka no kioku'' (2009) (literally translated, "Memories of a back" which hints at childhood where children are carried on their mother's backs). The series depicts biographical stories from her childhood.Masatsugu Ono,
A Year in Reading
, The Millions. Photobooks are an important format in the history of Japanese photography. This format became more important than prints starting in the 1960s due to the quality of design, printing and materials. Nagashima's photobooks include: *''Nagashima Yurie Photobook'', Fuga, Tokyo, 1995. . *''Empty White Room'' (), Little More, Tokyo, 1995. . *''Kazoku'' () / ''A Family'', Korinsha Press, Kyoto, 1998. . *''Pastime Paradise'', Madra, Tokyo, 2000. . *''not six'', Switch, Tokyo, 2004. . *''Senaka no Kioku'' (), Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009. . *''Swiss'', Akaaka, Tokyo, 2010. . *''5 comes after 6'', MATCH and Company, Tokyo, 2014.

Exhibitions

From 2000 to 2014, Nagashima was represented by the gallery SCAI the Bathhouse in Tokyo, where she had numerous solo and group exhibitions. In addition to her work as a photographer and photography lecturer, in August 2014, Nagashima was a Master at the International Summer School of Photography, in Latvia. She led a workshop titled 'Photography as a Subversive Tactic: Being the Other'. Nagashima is currently represented by MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY.

Scholarly works

Nagashima wrote a book titled 「僕らの女の子写真からわたしたちのガーリーフォトへ」which was published by Daifukushorin in 2020. The work is based on her master's dissertation from Musashino University. She used

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse Analysis ( discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event ...

to closely study the art criticism surrounding the 1990s photography movement that she was part of, to prove how a gender-biassed narrative dismissed the importance of her and others in the movement.

Curation

Nagashima curated a major show at the

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called "Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses: From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism" from October 15, 2021—March 13, 2022.

Solo exhibitions

*2022 “Where the gaze resides” DOMANI plus @ Aichi *2020 "B&W" Maho Kubota Gallery *2016 "about home" Maho Kubota Gallery *2015 "5 Comes After 6" UTRECHT, Tokyo *2011 "What I was supposed to see and what Isaw" 1223 GENDAIKAIGA, Tokyo *2010 "SWISS" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, viewing space, Tokyo *2007 "a box named flower" lammfromm, Tokyo *2005 "Her Projects – memories of no one" KIRIN PLAZA OSAKA, Osaka *2004 "Candy Horror" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo *2004 "not six" NADiff, Tokyo *2000 "PASTIME PARADISE" SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo *1999 "I want to be your power" California Institute of the Arts, California *1994 "Nagashima Yurie - A Room of Love-" P-House Gallery, Tokyo

Awards

* Kodansha Essay Award, Tokyo (2010) *The 26th Kimura Ihei Photography Award, Tokyo (2001) * PARCO Prize in URBANART #2, Tokyo (1993)

References

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