1960s Issey Miyake shot by Shinoyama [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:28 PM, January 10th, 2012 0 comments
Jaques Derrida on Kishin Shinoyama’s Light in the Dark [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:22 PM, January 4th, 2012 0 comments
Rika Noguchi visualising the invisible [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 2:48 PM, December 6th, 2011 1 comment
A new exhibition from Naoya Hatakeyama [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 22nd, 2011 0 comments
Video work by OVAR at Big In Japan 2011 [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 9:09 AM, November 11th, 2011 1 comment
An exhibition curated by Hiroshi Sugimoto for the 2011 Yokohama Triennale [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 9:55 PM, September 23rd, 2011 1 comment
Issey Miyake images by Irving Penn [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 9:08 PM, September 20th, 2011 0 comments
More Akasegawa Thomassons [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 6:09 PM, September 14th, 2011 0 comments
Genpei Akasegawa on art made by the city [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 4:08 PM, August 3rd, 2011 1 comment
Yellow giants, brown dwarfs, stellar black holes, supernovae, other stuff like that [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 1:11 PM, July 31st, 2011 0 comments
Kazuna Taguchi’s pictures lost in layers of photo-painting [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 2:01 PM, July 16th, 2011 0 comments
Hitoshi Nomura on forms that exist independently of intention [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 4:42 PM, July 11th, 2011 1 comment
Kohei Yoshiyuki pointing infrared rays on vespertine voyeurs in Tokyo’s public parks [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 1:51 PM, July 6th, 2011 1 comment
Yuki Kimura interrogating the materiality and posteriority of photographs [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 2:15 PM, January 22nd, 2011 1 comment
“What is embodied in photography is not a clear ‘knowledge of the whole’, but, rather, a ‘longing for the knowledge of the whole’.” – Naoya Hatakeyama [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 10:27 PM, November 30th, 2010 0 comments
More Hiroshi Sugimoto monochromes against Tadao Ando’s untreated concrete walls on Naoshima [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 3:43 PM, November 29th, 2010 1 comment
A new series of elaborately orchestrated photographs by Lieko Shiga [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 10:23 AM, November 11th, 2010 4 comments
Shitamichi Motoyuki on memory, place and images [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:04 PM, October 29th, 2010 0 comments
Yuko Kamei marrying bodies, spaces, movement and stills [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 5:58 PM, August 9th, 2010 0 comments
Yukihiro Taguchi finds a dark to stick the light in [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:16 AM, July 23rd, 2010 0 comments
When Yu Ogata and Ichiro Ogata Ono are not busy building buildings they photograph buildings others have built [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:37 AM, July 13th, 2010 0 comments
Hiroshi Sugimoto seeing with ancient eyes [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 1:42 PM, July 12th, 2010 0 comments
A new photography museum designed by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the foothills of Mt Fuji [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 9:40 AM, June 1st, 2010 0 comments
Lieko Shiga’s brother in his boxer shorts learning to play piano, sans piano [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 7:04 PM, May 7th, 2010 2 comments
With his unique brand of uncomfortable hilarity, Tatsumi Orimoto’s Oil Can will be performed in Sydney this May [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:54 AM, May 6th, 2010 2 comments
Leiko Shiga treats photography as means to distort – rather than document – reality [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 7:06 PM, April 22nd, 2010 0 comments
Having explored the temporal through the medium of photography for over three decades, Hiroshi Sugimoto has concluded that time is an exclusively human construct, which no other animal has any sense of [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 10:40 PM, March 20th, 2010 1 comment
As part of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ongoing inquiry into the scientific and philosophical implications of the medium of photography, a Lightning Fields installation is planned for the Biennale of Sydney this May [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 7:54 PM, February 21st, 2010 1 comment
The Japanese word for “photograph”, shashin, comes from sha (“to reproduce or reflect”) and shin (“truth”). The act of photography, then, consists of taking the truth and making a copy of it on a surface. [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 4:45 PM, February 8th, 2010 2 comments
Continuing until the end of this week at the Centre For Cosmic Wonder Tokyo: original prints from the Cosmic Wonder Free Press Sunday Edition [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 2nd, 2009 0 comments
Chatting with Fumiko Imano about the desire to self-duplicate, the nature of photography, the relationships between fashion and art, and how she came to be her own favourite subject [read more]
Posted by amelia groom 7:00 PM, October 29th, 2009 5 comments