November 2011
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Nov 26th
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October 2011
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Oct 13th
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Oct 11th
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"Photography Calling" Exhibition - but Japan isn't...
This weekend the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, openend a major exhibition on photography:  “Photography Calling!” The exhibition includes ca. 30 photographers from the USA and Europe from the 1960s until today. “Photography Calling!” is a great title, but based on the title I guess Asian photography and especially Japanese photography didn’t make enough...
Oct 9th
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September 2011
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Sep 6th
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July 2011
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WatchWatch
Punctum - new Asian photo magazine, produced in India First Issue Massoud Hossaini, Munem Wasif, Mimi, Kushal Ray, Rony Zakaria, Ken Kitano Suyeon Yun, Sovan Philong, Jes Aznar, Wei Leng Tay, Po-I Chen, Omar Kasmani and Loan Nguyen.
Jul 21st
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Jul 17th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 3rd
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June 2011
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Jun 26th
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Jun 19th
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“Trying to find a publisher for a photobook in 2011 is probably a little bit...”
– Moby on the photobook industry Video interview with Moby by British Journal of Photography
Jun 16th
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Moby on the photobook industry - British Journal of Photography. Musical artist Moby discusses the current state of the photography book industry as he releases his first photobook - Destroyed - in his 35-year career as a photographer. He talks with British Journal of Photography’s news and online editor Olivier Laurent.
Jun 15th
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The unbearable lightness of floating - Natsumi...
Natsumi Hayashi, photographing herself seemingly floating in the air.  A nice idea, well executed. See more at her blog:  yowayowa camera women diary A recent interview with the photographer:  Wheeee! Floating photographer captures herself ‘levitating’
Jun 14th
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“On Contemporary Photography One thing that I find fascinating about what’s...”
– Aaron Schuman, in: Foam Magazine: What’s Next? A Search into the Future of Photography
Jun 13th
May 2011
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May 30th
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Artist talk with Yutaka Takanashi at Le BAL, Paris
This Sunday  I will have an artist talk with Yutaka Takanashi, the co-founder of the legendary “Provoke” group. Rencontre avec Yutaka Takanashi Le BAL, Paris May 22, 3pm Yutaka Takanashi: Untitled, from the series “Toshi-e” (Towards the City), ca. 1971 Rencontre-discussion avec Yutaka Takanashi et Ferdinand Brueggemann, historien de la photographie japonaise. Yutaka...
May 19th
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April 2011
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Lecture on Japanese photography and the atomic...
On Saturday, April 30, I will have lecture at Le Bal: Beyond description - Japanese photography and the Atomic bomb. Remarks on the series “11:02 Nagasaki” by Shomei Tomatsu, “Kamaitachi” by Eikoh Hosoe and “The Map” by Kikuji Kawada. Symposion: “JAPON : REPRÉSENTER LA CATASTROPHE” April 30 - May 1, 2011 @ Le Bal, Paris  Pendant deux jours,...
Apr 28th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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“Of course, there are the great Japanese photobooks. I love Eikoh Hosoe’s...”
– Lesley Martin on “athletic photobooks”, i. e. Eikoh Hosoe’s “Kamaitachi” @Conscientious Blog
Apr 10th
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Apr 6th
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March 2011
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Namazu: The Earthshaker
According to Japanese myth the cause of earthquakes is the giant catfish Namazu or Namazu-e (the second term refers to the woodcuts of Namazu) living buried in the underground. By moving his tail he can shake the entire earth and unfortunately he loves to cause trouble and havoc. Japanese wood-block print showing a mythic catfish that causes earthquakes.  Namazu can be controlled only be the...
Mar 12th
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Mar 11th
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Mar 6th
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February 2011
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Feb 26th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 9th
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January 2011
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Jan 30th
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December 2010
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Dec 29th
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The hidden history of China in photos
(CNN) — Photography is flourishing as an art form in China but a collection of rare early photographs reveal the country’s long history with the medium. Daguerreotypes and photographs from the period between 1840 and 1911, which up till recently have not been widely collected or displayed, show a country undergoing vast change, caught between its ancient traditions and...
Dec 24th
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ANINAG - new website and online magazine on and by... →
First issue can be downloaded here
Dec 22nd
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Dan Flavin's light installions are not art - so...
Call that art? No, Dan Flavin’s work is just simple light fittings, say EU experts Brussels reclassifies Dan Flavin’s sculptures in ruling that means they will be liable to 20% VAT THE GUARDIAN It is a question that has dogged the contemporary art world since Duchamp put a urinal in a gallery: but is it art? When the lights were switched on at a Dan Flavin retrospective at the Hayward...
Dec 21st
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Dec 18th
September 2010
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Rinko Kawauchi “Murmuration” exhibition/book...
Rinko Kawauchi will exhibit a new series “Murmuration” at the Brighton Photo Biennal 2010 (Oct 2nd – Nov 14th 2010). The series is commissioned by the Brighton Biennal and will be accompanied by a publication. © Rinko Kawauchi, Untitled. From the series “Murmuration”, 2010. Acclaimed Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi has been drawn to the spectacle of flocking starlings at Brighton Pier....
Sep 29th
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The genius behind Alec Soth's Brighton biennial... →
Photographer Alec Soth was denied permission to work in the UK earlier this year. So he handed over the reins of his latest exhibition to a new collaborator: his seven-year-old daughter. @Guardian
Sep 20th
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Sep 17th
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Chris Killip @Amador Gallery, N.Y.
OT - I am huge fan of Chris Killip’s photography since I saw his work for the first time two decades ago at the photographic collection of the Museum Folkwang (and where I soon afterwards showed his works in courses for photography students). It is good to see that Killip is finally being recognized as a great documentary photographer. @Amador Gallery
Sep 10th
August 2010
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Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon dies, aged 46
Satoshi Kon, director of the acclaimed anime films Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress and Perfect Blue, has died. Kon died on the morning of August 24 from pancreatic cancer and was 46. —- Kon was a writer and director revered both within and outside of the anime fandom for creating beautiful pieces of animation that were as suspenseful as they were emotionally moving. Tokyo...
Aug 25th
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“This body grown fragile, floating, a reed cut from its roots If a stream...”
– Ono no Komachi (Japanese poet, early Heian period, c. 825—c. 900), from: “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu”, (via heian-kyaa) 
Aug 23rd
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Resistance is Futile: The Pulling Power of the...
On business in the provinces, unenthused about drinking alone in some cramped, cheap hotel room, I hesitantly open the door of a local “snack” establishment. I am no longer young, and no longer intimidated by high-class restaurants of any variety, yet that moment on entering an unfamiliar bar in an unfamiliar town still gives me the jitters. Indispensable to every such bar is,...
Aug 20th
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Ume Kayo Experience at Omotesando Hills -... →
The achingly fashionable shopping complex Omotesando Hills hosts the current exhibition of Ume Kayo’s latest work, an event which coincides with the release of her most recent photobook. The title of both the book and the show is spelled Umep but pronounced “Umeppu” in Japanese. Ume-me book cover Winner of the Ihee Kimura prize in 2006 with a cheerful collection of often bizarre little pictures...
Aug 14th