{"id":468,"date":"2008-12-01T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=468"},"modified":"2008-12-01T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T11:15:13","slug":"paris-photo-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Paris Photo and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is much more I could say about Paris Photo, but much was the same as ever, or perhaps more so. At many gallery spaces it was very much a case of deja vu, and there were some images I welcomed as old friends, in particular a very nice Steichen<\/em> gum platinum print and some fine dye transfers of artists studios by Evelyn Hofer<\/em>. If one can’t own such beautiful objects it is at least nice to see them on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

However there were other works I would be happy never to see again, and indeed some I would happily add to a bonfire or put back in the photographers rubbish bin from which some ‘vintage works’ do appear to have been ‘rescued.’ I think the gallery scene lacks any mechanism for dealers to admit to making mistakes – they just have to keep on putting out the work and hope that suckers will take the bait.<\/p>\n

It was good to see some of the Japanese work, in particular some fine large prints by Daido Moriyama<\/em> which made a nice comparision with work by William Klein<\/em> it was shown alongside. It was disappointing not to see more work from Eikoh Hosoe,<\/em> but there was a magnificient very large screen made from his picture of a Kamaitachi<\/a> running across a rice paddy, a wide open and highly luminous patchwork landscape. This very large inkjet print made on silk paper was truly one of the most desirable objects in the show.<\/p>\n

There is a lengthy illustrated essay by Mariko Takeuchi<\/em>, guest curator of the “Spotlight on Japan<\/em>” at the show on lensculture <\/a>which attempts the kind of overview of Japanese photography that would be beyond me. However, there are a few things\u00a0 it fails to mention, for example what was possibly a vital influence on photography in Japan in the 20th century (it was listed on the very detailed history board in the exhibition) in 1931 when ‘Film und Foto<\/a>‘ brought the modern photography world to tour Japan.<\/p>\n

Also without a mention is one of my favourite Japanese photographers, Issei Suda (b1940), (you can see around 30 of his pictures – though not my favourite works at the site of the\u00a0 Portland USA Charles A Hartman<\/a> gallery.) I was pleased to see pictuers by Suda both at both Galerie Priska Pasquer<\/em> from Cologne and a particularly fine image with a tatooed torso, from Zeit-Foto Salon<\/em> from Tokyo. Its a picture that’s hard to describeand I can’t find on the web, so here I’ll do something I don’t like to do and put my very bad snap, taken as an ‘aide-memoire’\u00a0 and full of reflections, on line. (Incidentally everyone seems happy with people taking pictures of the pictures at the show – which comes as a little shock after some museum policies. )<\/p>\n

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\nOne of four Issei Suda images on Zeit-Foto Salon Tokyo stand at Paris Photo<\/em><\/p>\n

Another fine image on the same stand was a large print by Ihei Kimura<\/a> (1901-74) one of a generation across the world whose creativity emerged with the Leica, and whose work desrves to be more widely known here.<\/p>\n

Takeuchi <\/em>does mention Kimura<\/em>, and also another phtogorapher whose prints I liked, Tomoko Yoneda<\/em>, whose black and white pictures seen through the spectacle lenses of the famous have for me a very Bauhaus feel.\u00a0 Another photographer who doesn’t get a look in is the only one of the more recent photographers from Japan who held any great interest for me, Nobuhiro Fukui<\/em>, who I mentioned in an earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is much more I could say about Paris Photo, but much was the same as ever, or perhaps more so. At many gallery spaces it was very much a case of deja vu, and there were some images I welcomed as old friends, in particular a very nice Steichen gum platinum print and some … Continue reading Paris Photo and Japan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers","category-reviews-etc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}