15 participating artists have been selected for the exhibition organized by 3 curators of “T3”, a project to develop photography culture in Asia!
*TOKYO INSTITUTE of PHOTOGRAPHY*
Press release: August 5, 2024
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15 participating artists have been selected for the exhibition organized by 3 curators of “T3”, a project to develop photography culture in Asia!
*Works by 15 artists will be exhibited from October 5th (Saturday) to October 27th (Sunday), 2024*
(C)︎YAMAZAWA Eiko “Abstract Blue and Red” (1960) Courtesy of The Third Gallery Aya
* At “T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO” in 2024, various exhibitions will be held in the area east of Tokyo Station.
By exploring the photos on display, we create a place where you can enjoy discovering the city and encounter diverse values. As the first project of this year, “New Japanese
Photography: 50 years
With the theme “On”, works by 15 artists will be exhibited from October 5th (Saturday) to October 27th (Sunday), 2024 in a special exhibition organized by three curators. *
In the spring of 1974, the works of 15 Japanese photographers were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “New Japanese The exhibition, titled “Photography,” was curated by Shoji Yamagishi, editor-in-chief of “Camera Mainichi” and John Szarkowski, director of MoMA’s photography department, who were extremely influential in their respective countries at the time. I worked on the ration. As a result of this exhibition, artists such as Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, and Masahisa Fukase were introduced to Europe and the United States on a large scale, and this continues to be the case with today’s worldwide recognition of Japanese photography. “New Japanese Photography: 50 years” will be held this year. On”, three curators will respond to the same exhibition held in New York in the form of three exhibitions.
In selecting the curators, we incorporated perspectives not only from Japan but also from overseas, following the 1974 exhibition, and also took into consideration the diverse gender perspectives that were lacking in the exhibition, which was comprised only of men at the time. Please take a look at the response from Tokyo, which transcends time and space, to the message sent from New York 50 years ago. (T3 Founder/Yoshihiro Hayami)
Bunmei, Miyuki Endo (Assistant Curator) | NEW JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY 1974→2024 We will introduce the transformation of Japanese photography that has taken place over the past 50 years through three sections.
1. Walk around the country / Motoyuki Shitamichi, Miyeon Kang, Sayaka Uehara “Cross the country”, “Return to the country”, “For the
country”… The term “kuni” has a wide range of meaning, from nation and hometown to ideology. Because these boundaries are not immutable, but are rooted in history, this exhibition reconsiders “Japan.”
“torii” This work focuses on torii gates, which were built throughout East Asia as part of Japan’s colonial rule from the Meiji period to the end of the last World War, and which still remain outside the country’s borders. , will exhibit photos taken in South Korea, Russia, Sakhalin, etc.
Motoyuki Shitamichi / Born in Okayama Prefecture in 1978. “torii” (2006-2012) is a representative series that photographs torii gates that remain as remains of the Japanese colonial period in East Asia, and the video shows the current state of rocks that were washed ashore by the tsunami on the coastline of the Sakishima Islands of Okinawa more than 250 years ago. He is known for his creative activities based on travel and fieldwork, such as the photographic series “Tsunami Stone” (2015-).
“Selecting Facts” is a series that has been touring sites across Japan that were hit by air raids at the end of the Pacific War since 2018, and has been photographing the current state of those places and the people living there. We will exhibit photos taken in Osaka, where many Hanjoseon people are buried.
Kang Mi-seon/From Korea. TOTEM POLE PHOTO in Tokyo from 2017 I am participating as a member of GALLERY and continue to create works. Since 2018, he has been creating and presenting works related to “air raids.”
This is a series in which the author of “Sleeping Tree” travels through the daily life of Okinawa, his birthplace, and takes pictures one by one, as if to quietly capture the history of the place that stands quietly on every street corner. New works, including previously unpublished works, will be exhibited.
Sayaka Uehara / Born in Okinawa Prefecture in 1993. I create photographic works as a practice that captures the memories and scars that appear in landscapes, and the layers of time held by places and things. Released the photo book “Sleeping Tree” from Akakasha. Received the 36th Photography Town Higashikawa Award for New Artist. Received the Encouragement Award and Ohara Museum of Art Award at “VOCA Exhibition 2024”.
2. The meaning of imagining / Mayumi Hosokura, Kohei Fukushima Capturing reflected light from an object with a camera has long been considered the basic path to photography, but this is not the only way to capture it. This exhibition embodies alternative aspects of photography through expressions that do not rely solely on optics, such as scans and bugs.
“Karada no Ie” This work, which was created by scanning a part of the artist’s own body and synthesizing it, visualizes the sensation of contact with the skin and the sense of touch that does not exist there.This time, the size will be changed to match the floor plan of the Shoei Building. This allows the venue to be exhibited as a single “body.”
Hosokura
Mayumi: Focusing on tactile vision, she uses photography and video to explore the changing boundaries between the body, sexuality, humans and artificial objects, and organic and inorganic objects. “Walking, Diving” (2023, Takuro
Held solo exhibitions at venues such as Someya Contemporary Art) and “NEW SKIN” (2019, mumei). “NEW
He has released photo books such as “SKIN” (2020, MACK) and “Jubilee” (2017, artbeat publishers).
“Afterimage” This is a work that intentionally creates a bug in the video data of nature in various parts of Japan, such as mountains, river waterfalls, and beaches, and creates a still image by
intentionally adding noise to the area that is moving on the screen. The exhibition also incorporates a construction method reminiscent of video frames.
Kohei Fukushima
/ Born in Tokyo in 1989. The technology that people come into contact with on a daily basis and the changes in the environment that it creates are turned into works of “landscape photography.” Using familiar technologies such as map search engines, we expose the heterogeneity of technology that has blended into everyday scenery. Major awards include 2017 “20th
His works have been selected for the 2017 Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award, the 6th Tomi Selection in 2017, and the 2017 Yokohama Art University President’s Award for Excellence.
3. Separating what you don’t understand / Shingo Kanagawa, Natsuki Kuroda The relationships between self and other, private and public, and individual and state are established by making the absolute
“incomprehension” of others irrelevant through laws and norms, but this has not disappeared. In this exhibition, we will share this “not understanding” through the perspectives of those involved.
“Father,” “Father Who Hasn’t Gone,” “Father” is a work that depicts a father who once disappeared, and “Father Who Hasn’t Gone” shows the changes that have occurred since the film was created. This is a series of works in which he confronts his father as a “other close person” and confronts his “incomprehension”, and both works will be exhibited together this time.
Shingo Kanagawa/Born in Kyoto in 1981. His major works include “Father” (2016), “Long Time” (Nanalui), 2023, and “The Father Who Hasn’t Gone” (Shobunsha). Main exhibitions: 2022 “Roppongi Crossing 2022 Exhibition: All right!” Mori Art Museum, 2021 “CHIBA
PHOTO” Former Kamiya Denbei residence Inage villa etc. He received the Jun Miki Award, the Sagamihara New Photography Encouragement Award, and the Higashikawa Award for New Artists.
“Photos of Friends” and “Delivering the Names of Birds” are video works based on workshops planned by the artist himself, and both show the difficulty and richness of “seeing” that one realizes when trying to communicate to others. Both works will be screened together. Natsuki Kuroda/Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1988. Won the Grand Prix at the 8th Photo “1_WALL” in 2013. Since 2016, he has been
participating in the annual media art exhibition “Hikaru Animal Ensemble” at Yokohama City Kanazawa Zoo. In 2019, he organized a group exhibition of photographs and videos titled “Animal Eyes” (Yokohama City Kanazawa Zoo/Kanagawa) at the same zoo.
Mika Kobayashi | Where did that “masculinity” come from?
The “New Japanese Photography” exhibition was made up of only men, both the planners and exhibiting artists.
This exhibition focuses on the androcentric values and homosociality that permeate not only the photography community, but also the media and Japanese society as a whole. Through the images of men
represented, we examine from a critical perspective what
“masculinity” is, especially among the normative values related to gender, in light of the changes in postwar society. There will also be an exhibition of materials such as scrapbooks, postcards, magazines, and books from private collections.
“Cut
“Suits” is an installation using footage of six men who look like office workers cutting each other’s suits and shirts with scissors and scraps of clothing. The men gradually become nude, taking on an erotic aspect, suggesting liberation from male society.
Fuyuhiko Takada/Artist/videographer. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1987. mythology,
Themes such as sex, gender, narcissism, and trauma are layered with modern customs and social issues in a humorous way.
Express with exaggeration. Major exhibitions in recent years include the 2023 group exhibition “Fairy
Tales” (Queensland Art Gallery/Brisbane, Australia), 2023 solo exhibition “Cut Suits” (WAITINGROOM/Tokyo), 2019 solo exhibition “MAM Screen 011: Fuyuhiko Takada” (Mori Art Museum/Tokyo), etc.
“Clothed in Sunny”
“Finery” is a five-year series of photographs of traditional naked festivals that have been held across Japan for hundreds of years. The work will be screened as a video work, combining close-up photos of the bodies of men wearing loincloths and violently colliding with each other, as well as a short video.
Keijiro Kai/Born in 1974 in Fukuoka Prefecture. Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 2002. Currently a part-time lecturer at the same school.
Martial arts festivals were traditionally held in various parts of the world before the modern concept of sports was born.
By immersing himself in the midst of these situations, he takes photographs and presents works that use photographs to answer essential questions about human life. His main photo books include “Marrow of the Bone” (Shinjuku Shobo)
2020) and “Kira no Haregi” (ZEN FOTO GALLERY 2023).
He has won the 28th Photo Society Award, the 20th Sagamihara Photo Award, and the 45th Ina Nobuo Award. Mark Feustel |
Alternative Visions: A Female Perspective / The Wall vs the Page French curator Marc Feustel focuses on two overlooked perspectives in his 1974 “New Japanese Photography.”
1. Women’s perspective / Eiko Yamazawa, Yoshiko Okagami, Tamiko Nishimura, Makoto Watanabe, Toyoko Tokiwa, * Hisae Imai *
Fifteen photographers were selected for the exhibition, but not a single one was female. This exhibition presents a different exhibition that could have been held at the time, based on a group of important works produced by female artists who were active during that period. 2. Existence of “photo albums”
Although Shoji Yamagishi stated that “Japanese photographs were primarily created for books,” the 1974 exhibition featured only one photo book, with the rest consisting of prints. This exhibition shows the importance and diversity of photo books in modern times, and shows how the experience of viewing photos differs between “pages” and “walls.”
This work presents an alternative vision of 1974 by presenting the works of six postwar female photographers and the experience of reading photo books.
* Eiko Yamazawa *
Born in Osaka in 1899. In 1918, she graduated from the Japanese Painting Department of a private girls’ art school in Tokyo. Returning to Osaka, he continued his studies in oil painting and photography, and in 1926 moved to the United States and entered the California School of Fine Arts. In addition to oil painting, he worked as an assistant to American photographer Consuelo Kanaga. Returned to Japan in 1929 and opened a photography studio in Osaka in 1931. After the war, he worked on advertising photography, and then concentrated on creating abstract photographs. In 1968, he moved to Kobe, and in the 1970s and 1980s he worked on “My Modern/What
He has held numerous solo exhibitions entitled “I Am Doing.” Passed away in 1995.
*Yoshiko Okagami*
Born in Kochi Prefecture in 1928. Graduated from Bunka Gakuin Design Department in 1952. While attending school, he began creating collage works using American graph and fashion magazines such as LIFE and VOGUE, which were popular in the post-war period. With the
encouragement of art critic and poet Shuzo Takiguchi, he concentrated on his creations and held his first solo exhibition in 1953. In the late 1960s, she took a break from creative activities after getting married. Since 2000, there has been a growing momentum for
re-evaluation, and retrospective exhibitions were held at the Kochi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2018 and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in 2019.
* Tamiko Nishimura *
Born in Tokyo in 1948, graduated from Tokyo College of Photography (now Tokyo Visual Arts) in 1969. After graduating, I started traveling with my camera when I started earning money through part-time jobs and magazine jobs. In 1973, he published his first photo book
“Shikishima” (Tokyo Photography Academy Publishing Bureau), which covers Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hokuriku, Kanto, Kansai, and the Chugoku region. Since the 1990s, he has also been photographing overseas, including Europe, Cuba, and Vietnam. Throughout his career as an artist, which spans more than half a century, he has never changed his stance of shooting on film and producing prints himself in the darkroom. His works are in the collection of the Hong Kong M+ Museum. * Watanabe Eye*
Graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 1968. He presented “The World of Kogushi” at his graduation exhibition, and after graduating, he encountered the Zenkyoto Movement while photographing the streets of Shinjuku. In 1972, when he traveled around Asia and visited India and Nepal for the first time, he felt it was his spiritual home and lived there for a while. After returning to Japan, he began photographing spiritual documents as a message to “living things.” “Photo Document
He has published many photo books such as “The University of Tokyo Zenkyodo 1968-1969” (Shinchosha, 2005), “1968 Shinjuku”
(Machikarasha, 2014), and “The University of Tokyo 1968-1969 – Inside the Blockade” (Zen Photo Gallery, 2015). Publication. In 2013, he exhibited in many group exhibitions both domestically and
internationally, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography’s “Japanese Photography 1968″ exhibition.
*Tokiwa Toyoko*
Born in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1928. After graduating from Tokyo Kasei Gakuin in 1950, he worked as an announcer for a news agency in Yokohama. Inspired by Yasuhiro Okumura, who later became her husband, she decided to pursue a career as a photographer. In 1956, she held her first solo exhibition, “Working Women” (Tokyo, Konishiroku Gallery), which was well received. The following year, she published “Dangerous Poisonous Flowers” (Mikasa Shobo), a collection of photo essays in which she captured images of women working in the red light district of Yokohama. She is attracting attention as one of the leading female photographers of the post-war period. Passed away in 2019. A huge number of prints, negatives, cameras and other materials have been donated to the Yokohama Urban Development Memorial Museum.
* Hisae Imai *
Born in 1931 to parents who ran a photo studio in Tokyo. Graduated from Bunka Gakuin Art Department in 1952. At the urging of his father’s friend, he began making photographs, and in 1956 held his first solo exhibition, “Daydream.” In 1959, he won the Japan Critics Newcomer’s Award. In 1962, he lost his eyesight for several months due to an accident while riding in a taxi. After his eyesight recovered, he was deeply moved by the lively images of horses he saw in movies, and continued to take photos of racehorses and jockeys throughout his life. Passed away in 2009. He passed away at the age of 77. His works are in the collections of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography, Kiyosato Photo Museum, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO
“T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL” will be held for the 6th time this year. “TOKYO” will expand its project as “T3”, a platform to develop photography culture in Asia, and will be held in the Yaesu,
Nihonbashi, and Kyobashi areas of Tokyo from Saturday, October 5th to Sunday, October 27th, 2024. It will be held on.
During this period, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF We also plan to hold various talk events by inviting people from overseas who are active in the international art world, including curators from MoMA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
* [Event Overview] *
Period: October 5th (Sat) – 27th (Sun), 2024
Event area: Indoor and outdoor venues in the Yaesu, Nihonbashi, and Kyobashi areas of Tokyo
Admission: General: ¥1,500 in advance, ¥2,000 on the day; Students: ¥1,000 in advance, ¥1,500 on the day.
Sponsor: TOKYO INSTITUTE of PHOTOGRAPHY
Supervisor: CMS Co., Ltd.
Planning: T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO Executive Committee
URL: https://t3photo.tokyo/
[What is “New Japanese Photography: 50 years on”?]
“New Japanese” was held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1974. Photography” exhibition. Curated by John Szarkowski, former director of MoMA’s photography department, and Shoji Yamagishi, editor-in-chief of Camera Mainichi, this project is said to be “the first large-scale survey of contemporary Japanese photography conducted outside of Japan.” ” is known as a photo exhibition that had a long and significant impact on the subsequent evaluation and research of “Japanese photography” overseas. 50 years have passed since the exhibition. “New
This is a special exhibition centered on “Japanese Photography” that aims to shed new light on “photography,” which is changing and expanding rapidly in modern times.
[What is “T3”]
T3 is a comprehensive photography project consisting of festivals, fairs and training projects.
T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL is a photography festival set in the city of Tokyo that provides artists with an international opportunity to present and create their works.
TOKYO”. “T3 PHOTO” is starting a new art photo market in Asia. ASIA”. “T3 NEW” is a program that fosters new talent by crossing over between festival and fair environments.
TALENT”. Through these activities, we aim to become a place where the activities of writers and art workers spread, and where culture is passed on to the next generation.
[Origin of T3 name]
The name “T3” comes from the concept of the three T’s (technology, talent, and tolerance) that are essential for a city’s prosperity, proposed by American sociologist Richard Florida in his book “Creative Capital.” “T3” embodies this essence and is a platform formed through collaboration between artists and the region. To be a space for new expressions, to offer new insights into the city, and to celebrate and foster diversity and tolerance. That is the basic philosophy underlying “T3.”
Grant:
Foundation Strengthening Fund for Cultural and Artistic Activities (Support project for nurturing creators and increasing the added value of cultural facilities) | Japan Arts Council, an independent administrative organization
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Arts Council Tokyo [Subsidy for creating attractions of art and culture]
Embassy of France in Japan/Institut Francais
Special sponsorship:
Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd.
tokyo square garden
Tokyo Midtown Yaesu
Toda Construction Co., Ltd.
Sponsored by:
Chuo Nippon Land and Building Co., Ltd.
Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Store Daimaru Tokyo Store
cooperation:
National Film Archive
Tokyo Subway Co., Ltd.
Sponsored by: Chuo Ward, Tokyo
T3 PHOTO FESTIVAL TOKYO Executive Committee
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